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Tourism sector growing in Idaho – In Shoshone County, 22 percent of jobs depend on industry

December 4, 2005 /

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Idaho’s economy just keeps going and going, driven in large part by visitors who keep coming and coming.

Travel and tourism accounted for 5 percent of Idaho’s gross state product in 2004, and a new study indicates the industry is providing an increasing share of the state’s jobs and wages.

Conducted for Idaho Commerce & Labor by Global Insight in partnership with D.K. Shifflet & Associates, the report estimated tourism’s contribution to Idaho’s $43.4 billion gross state product last year at $2.1 billion.

By RICK THOMAS
Staff writer

Full Story: http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2005/12/04/business/bus01.txt

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