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Show Survey Shows City As Tourist Choice Salt Lake City was mentioned as being the major attraction by 36.5 per cent of the tourist parties visiting Utah. This was one of the findings of a tourist survey recently completed com-pleted by the Bureau of Economics Econ-omics and Business Research at the U of U. The purpose of the survey, conducted throughout U$ah, was to learn more about Utah's they come from, what they like tourists who they are, where and dislike, how much they spend, where they stay. The average tourist party visiting Utah consists of approximately app-roximately three persons who as a group spent $23 per day or nearly $100 during their four-day stay. Visiting historical places and viewing Utah's magnificent scenery were ranked at the top of what tourists wanted to do while in the state. Salt Lake City was rated as the single primary Utah destination by most tourists interviewed, although al-though the national parks, forests, and other outdoor attractions att-ractions were likewise very popular. The U of U campus, Big Cottonwood Canyon, and the Utah State Capitol Building Build-ing were mentioned as some of the most popular attractions attract-ions in the Salt Lake area. Utah tourists came from every state in the Union and also from 14 foreign countries, the district of Columbia, and Alaska. However, nearly 60 per cent of them came from the 11 Western States, with California Cal-ifornia contributing almost half of them. Tourists felt that the prices they paid in Utah were generally gen-erally on an even keel with those elsewhere in the nation. They felt that the services they received from restaurants, motel owners, service stations, and Utahns in general were good. The majority of the visitors considered Utahn'S well informed about their state and able to answer the tourists tour-ists questions. |