Iron County Record | 1964-12-24 | Page 7 | Utah Tourist Industry Has Creat

Utah Tourist Industry Has Great While the recreation industry is the third largest in the nation na-tion in terms of dollar volume, Utah "has just begun to realize its potential," says Harold P. Fabian, chairman, Utah State Park and Recreation commission. commis-sion. "Our state park system is already al-ready proving a magnet, and such parks as Wasatch Mountain Moun-tain and Dead Horse Point will become greater attractions as time goes on," he added. Spending Spend-ing for the vacation industry, and allied segments of the travel industry totalled $22-billion last year, he pointed out Tourism brought $140-million of spending spend-ing in Utah, almost equal to the grc&j revenues of the agricultural agri-cultural industry, Mr, Fabian estimated. Develop Tourist Magnets "We are realizing less of the national tourist dollar volume than we should,'' he said. "We have a tremendous undeveloped potential in such assets as our state parks. Wo have water recreation rec-reation areas, forested mountain moun-tain parks, canyon parks, historic his-toric buildings and monuments that should be developed as major ma-jor tourist magnets." Dollars invested in-vested in parklands as tourist inducements would provide returns re-turns to entire communities, he held.