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Show Wednesday, January 28.' 1 998 The Park Record A-11 The Beehive State's tourist sites aren't large moneymakers, a study shows Several national parks in southern Utah lag behind others in attracting tourist dollars SALT LAKE CITY (AP) In two of Utah's three congressional districts, tourism brings in less money than comparable areas nationwide, a new study shows. The report, based on 1995 U.S. Census Bureau data, was put together by the Travel Industry Association of America and the U.S. Commerce Department. Environmentalists have argued for additional wilderness, saying pristine pris-tine lands would increase tourism and bring more money to the state. Ranchers, piner and loggers log-gers say tourism jobs pay little and wilderness is. hurting their more lucrative industries. The study's findings were based on how much money is spent by travelers and how many jobs that creates in each of 436 U.S. House districts, including the District of Columbia. Each House district nationally has roughly the same population. The only Utah district that brought in more than the $966 million mil-lion national average in travel spending was Utah's 1st, represented repre-sented by Rep. Jim Hansen, R-Utah. R-Utah. , It attracted $1.7 billion from travel revenue in 1995, creating about 25,540 jobs and a payroll of $522.3 million, the study said. That ranked 46th best among the 436 House districts nationally. However, the 1st District was redrawn after the 1990 Census to include the Salt Lake City International Airport. It also covers most of the western west-ern part of the state from Logan to St. George, and includes Ogden-area ski resorts, Brian Head ski resort in southern Utah, Zion National Park and Cedar Breaks National Monument. Somewhat surprisingly, the Utah district with the most national nation-al parks attracted the least amount of money from tourism in Utah. Utah's 3rd District, represented by Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, attracted a below-national-average $813,470,000 from tourism, creating 16,500 jobs with a payroll of $184 million. The 3rd was 155th out of the 436 House districts, and includes the Park City and Provo area ski resorts, and most of eastern Utah, including Arches, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef and Canyonlands national parks and the popular Lake Powell. Utah's 2nd District, represented by Rep. Merrill Cook, R-Utah, also attracted a below-average $842 million in tourism money, creating 17,100 jobs and a payroll of $190.9 million. The 2nd was 149th out of 436 districts, the study said. The 2nd District includes downtown Salt Lake City and Temple Square, the single most-visited most-visited tourist site in Utah. It also includes Salt Lake County ski resorts. The House district that attracted attract-ed the most tourism nationally was Nevada's 1st District, which includes Las Vegas and its casinos. It received $9.94 billion in tourist spending. Behind it was Florida's 8th the home of Disney World and Sea World attracting $7.2 billion. And in third place was Hawaii's 1st District, including the Honolulu metro area, which attracted $7.07 billion. Nagano organizers, newspapers are at odds Opening ceremony information published after anrfifimpnt nnt tn nrint was hrntan V I A A V T T A f 1 .. . . , NAGANO, Japan (AP) Organizers have met with representatives rep-resentatives of two major Japanese newspapers suspended from covering the Nagano Olympics for publishing unauthorized unau-thorized material, but have not backed down from their ban, a spokesman for the games said today. Spokesman Ko Yamaguchi said neither the Sankei newspaper newspa-per or. its sister publication, Sankei Sports, have offered a formal for-mal explanation of why they broke an agreement not to publish pub-lish photos and stories of an opening ceremony dress rehearsal. "We are waiting for a full explanation," he said. Yamaguchi said a decision on when or whether to reinstate the credentials creden-tials for both newspapers will be made after International Olympic Committee officials arrive here Tuesday. The 1.9-million-circulation Sankei newspaper and Sankei Sports published articles about the ceremony in their Sunday editions. On the Sankei's front page was a photograph of the torch-lighting by Albertville silver-medalist figure-skater Midori Ito. Journalists for both papers were expelled from the media center and banned from all Olympic facilities and news con ferences, including the one in which the Nagano organizing committee announced the penalties penal-ties Sunday evening. "For something like this to occur is extremely regrettable," Keita Asari, executive producer of the games' opening and closing clos-ing ceremonies, said in a statement. state-ment. Though unlikely to last throughout the duration of the Feb. 7-22 games, the suspension was harsher than expected. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Journal-Constitution published similar photos before the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and was stripped of five of its six photo credentials for the opening ceremony. cere-mony. Representatives of Sankei didn't did-n't comment, other than a statement state-ment that they hoped the ban would be lifted "as soon as possi- SLC's Nagano segment to highlight Utah, West pqpdiniill receive Olympic flag SALT LAKE CITY (AP) East will meet West in Salt Lake City's five-minute segment of the closing ceremony at next month's Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Salt Lake City's moment in the spotlight is being kept under wraps, but some details have emerged. The transition from Japan to Utah occurs near the end of the 90-minute spectacle on Feb. 22. After paying homage to traditional tradi-tional Japanese culture and Nagano summer festivals, the program will shift gears. An orchestra will play the national anthems of Japan, Greece (representing (rep-resenting the International Olympic Committee) and United States. IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch will take the Olympic flag from Nagano Mayor Tasuku Tsukada and hand it to Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini the first wcuriarv,erj reeivthe.flag,,:, , At. that pointv sources said, the 4aft Latferenfeir 'Committee (SLOC) will unveil a program "embodying Utah and the American West as the next host of the Winter Olympics." The segment will be consistent with " the 2002 theme of "Contrast, Culture and Courage." It will feature props ! highlighting the region's geographical geo-graphical diversity, from snowcapped snow-capped mountains to red-rock desert arches, as well as a culture that encompasses an American Indian heritage, pioneer settlement settle-ment and growth into an exuberant exuber-ant modern society. The message also will be described symbolically in various ways, including a modern dance by six Salt Lake City-area performers per-formers four from the Repertory Dance Theatre and two from the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Shelley Thomas, SLOC vice president of communications, declined to confirm program details. Surfing the web? Check out The Park Record at wwW.newschoice.com PAY PARKING woia1A Uive woveA fo New YovV. Paid Advertisement by Michael Contl ble." Also Monday, economist Masaya Miyoshi, president of the Keizai Koho Center, a respected think tank, defended the high cost of the Nagano Olympics. He said spending on the games, including new venues, roads and railways, has swelled to roughly $10.5 billion, more than twice the amount spent on the Atlanta Games. The cost of . the games has been the focus of criticism, with many opponents saying the venues and some of the roads will be of little use after the games are over. 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