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Article: Pricey Bar Harbor loses customers to Bangor, County
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- July 6, 2004
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If the July Fourth holiday is any clue, Bar Harbor and Acadia
National Park could be headed for another disappointing tourism
season.
Although it's too early in the summer for firm numbers, the signs
of a depressed season were everywhere over the long holiday weekend.
Only two of the town's 50 hotels, motels and cottages were booked
over the holiday weekend, when during a good year a visitor couldn't
buy a room to rent for the Fourth.
The Island Explorer bus system drove significantly fewer campers
back to their campgrounds after Sunday's fireworks display.
And the Rotary Club sold 200 fewer blueberry pancakes on Saturday,
which, without other indicators, could be chalked up to America's ...