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Show Predict Big Jump In Tourist Traffic From points as far removed as Maine and Florida, motorists are heading for Utah this year in greater numbers than ever before, Joe H. Thompson, director of the Conoco Travel bureau, Tenver, an-! an-! nounced this week after making a i nationwide survey of tourist ! trends. ! The survey shows, he said, that i 1,-100,000 persons will come by automobile to Utah this year and leave behind the record sum of $2!,075,000. "Business throughout the state, : in all lines, will undoubtedly re-! re-! ceive a decided impetus," the an- nouncement said. The annual Conoco survey is I based on requests for route and other motorists' information received re-ceived at the Travel bureau. Ex-' Ex-' perience in the past has shown ' that for every person who requests re-quests information there are a large number who travel without it, and from this formula the annual an-nual estimates are made. "Letters to my office this year indicate a sharp rise in interest in Utah's magnificent scenic attractions at-tractions and hospitality", Thompson Thomp-son said in making his calculations calcula-tions public. "Last year Utah's national parks enjoyed the greatest great-est travel season they had ever kown, but during 1936 Zion National Na-tional park will attract at least 112,000 persons; 75,000 will glovy in the beauty of Bryce ncanyon; and Cedar Breaks, though a more -recent national park and less well, known, will receive 25,000 visitors, our survey indicates. Of those in the United States who have never seen ;Great Salt Lake, it appears all want to see it, and a good,,. I many thousand of them will come this year. Altogether, Utah's tourist industry will' be up' 3(1 per . .cent over 1930." Nearly six million dollars will be spent for lodging, and a like amount for gas, oil, garaging and repairs; retail stores will get $G,-' ! 105,750; the visitors . will pay $7,-, $7,-, 2ti8,000 for meals a new high j and roadside stands will take $2,-i $2,-i 320,000, the remaining million aiid three quarters being earmarked for amusements, Thompson said.' o |