State puts tourism funding into 28 local promotions

State puts tourism funding into 28 local promotions

By Mike Gorrell
The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Aug 12, 2011 06:43PM MDT

State tourism officials are pumping $1.5 million into out-of-state promotions put together by 24 local tourism-development organizations.
The Utah Board of Tourism Development allocated cooperative marketing funds Thursday for 28 of 32 applications. This is the ninth time in the past seven years the board has provided matching funds — of up to 50 percent of the revenue needed — ­for advertising campaigns submitted by cities, counties, nonprofit destination-marketing organizations and other nonpr...

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