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Show Utah Travel Was Up Agency Says Fiscal 1970-71 wasn't a good year for traditional '(ravel '(ra-vel destinations such as Ha'.v-aii, Ha'.v-aii, Las Vegas and Southern iCalifornia. For the glamour areas, it was a year of lie "budget vacation," or worse, no vacation at all. Not so for Utah, however. Despite an inflationary tremJ and a waivering travel economy econ-omy nationally, Utah's travel industry expanded by 13.4 per cent in numbers of tourists tour-ists and 11 per cent in traveler trav-eler expenditures over the previous fiscal year. According to a survey prepared pre-pared for the Utah Travel Council by Utah State University's Univer-sity's Institute for the Study of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, over 660,000 mote motor vehicle tourists visited visit-ed Utah, the study indicates for the same period the previous pre-vious year. Tourist numbers; increased 13.4 per cent from 4.59 million to 5.21 million. Although more people visited visit-ed tUah, the study indicates they spent less money per Iperson. The average Utah visitor spent only $15.90 each day he was in the state (faring (far-ing 1970-71. The previous year he spent $16.19. "People 'are still traveling, they're just trying to make the dol-lar dol-lar go a bit further," explains ex-plains Utah Travel Council director, Lee Jorgensen. Despite the drop in per-person per-person expenditures, Utah still recorded an 11 per cent gain overall. In '70-71, motor vehicle travelers spent $126,-035,700, $126,-035,700, $12,356,900 more than the amount for the previous pre-vious year. Even taking a five per cent rate of inflation into account, Utah still records re-cords a growth of six per cent, for the fiscal year just ended. |