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Archive Home > 2001 > April > 08 > Tourism a big payoff for Oregon

Tourism a big payoff for Oregon

By Beth Britton / The Bulletin
April 8, 2001

How important is tourism to Central Oregon and the state? Look at the numbers.

Thirty-three percent. That's how much visitor numbers at the 7-year-old Museum at Warm Springs increased in 2000 from 1999.

Nearly $6 billion. That's how much travel spending statewide totaled in 2000, up 7.6 percent....

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