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Show Chamber's tourism display to be exhibited for citizens sportation needs, 16 percent for retail items and 3 percent for entertainment. en-tertainment. "Tourism affects, in one way or another, and we think positively, everybody in Cedar City," said Jones. Jones added that the Chamber is very busy in promoting the industry here. Besides the booth which is taken to travel shows throughout the western United States, the Chamber has participated par-ticipated in erecting promotional signs at the north and south interstate exits to Cedar City as well as at Las Vegas: it answers an-swers about 5000 letters per year asking for in-formation in-formation about recreation in the area: CEDAR CITY -Tourism in southern Utah is big business, and it will probably . be getting bigger. Thus was the opinion of S. Garth Jones, executive secretary of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, upon announcing that a booth used by the Chamber to promote Color Country and Iron County will be on display for area citizens next week. It will be in First Security Bank Monday, in State Bank of Southern Utah Tuesday, in Zions National Bank Wednesday Wed-nesday and in First Interstate In-terstate Bank Thursday. According to Jones, "In these bleak economic times, tourism may well have one of its best years," and this past year would be something to top. According to figures recently released by the Utah State University Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, $75.2 million was spent by tourists in Color Country from April 1981 to March 1982. That is the second highest figure among the nine tourist regions in Utah, second only to Great Salt Lake, which had $187.6 million spent. Of that expenditure, 25 percent goes for food, 23 percent for lodging, 33 percent for tran- |