Tourism Up in Tennessee

May 08, 2017 at 08:43 am by bryan


The Tennessee Department of Tourism reports about 110-million people visited the state in 2016, that's up over four-percent from 2015.

Those numbers put the state in the top ten in the country for domestic travel, according to officials.

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The biggest gains were in leisure travelers, who stay overnight. This is National Tourism Week and state officials will mark it with special events at the over a dozen welcome centers statewide.

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