MID-HUDSON NEWS16 March 2009
Tourism is up in the Hudson Valley
GOSHEN -- The economy is driving more and more people to the the Hudson Valley as a tourist destination. Tourism is up statewide and the Hudson Valley is no exception.Orange County Tourism Director Susan Cayea said people who live within three to five hours of the region are driving in to see the sights."People are downsizing their travel budgets this year," she said. "You can get to the Hudson Valley and home again on a tank of gas, but there's so much to do and see that people will choose the Hudson Valley over farther away destinations just because it's going to be more cost effective and it's still going to satisfy that urge to get away and see something different."While the base of the region's tourists usually come from the New York metropolitan area, Cayea said more and more are traveling from the Washington and Boston corridors.
My two cents! - Actually this has been a trend over the past three/four years. My own personal observation .. I have visitors to my shop in Catskill from as far afield as Australia, California, Colorado, Manitoba, British Columbia .. not to mention Toronto, Detroit, and from the 'Longhorn' state. I am always surprised. HMH
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