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Article: Eureka Springs Hotels target business, boomers.
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- August 25, 2003
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VICHY SHOWERS AND WAL-Mart vendors helped vault revenue at Eureka Springs historic Crescent Hotel by about 10 percent so far this year. That compares with an average 4 percent increase for all of the city's 130 lodging businesses combined.
This tourist town of 2,000 people brought in $20 million in hotel revenue last year. That's $2 million more than Fayetteville, which has a population of 58,000.
To keep the flow of tourists coming in, it has become essential for the people of Eureka Springs to reinvent their quirky hamlet as times change. Throughout its history, Eureka Springs has been billed as "The Magic City," "The Stairstep Town," "The Gem of the ...