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Article: Is Eureka Springs Tourism Flat or Booming?
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- March 6, 2000
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City Craves More Visitors
EVEN WITH A SEVEN-STORY statue of Jesus watching over them, the people of Eureka Springs just can't seem to get a break.
For the past seven years, residents of this Victorian hamlet have been pointing fingers.
It all started in 1993, the first year in two decades that the amount of money brought in by the city's tourism tax decreased.
Since then, the tourism director of 17 years was fired, two high-powered little Rock advertising agencies were canned and a new mayor was elected in a swing to the left.
And the tourism? Well, it's up--but not by much.
In the meantime, bankruptcies are up, ...