Businesses in a southern Kentucky tourist-rich area are hoping a National Park Service report released this week is an indicator of a strong upcoming summer season.
That report showed visitors to the state’s national parks spent over $113 million in the Commonwealth last year.
Adam Phillips is McCreary County’s Tourism Director. He says the area recently had a large trail race that had over 400 racers and others who accompanied them. “Obviously,” said Phillips, “That got us kind of off to a good start as far as the spring season goes.”
The Yamacraw run in the Big South Fork Recreation area included 10, 20, and 50 kilometer races. Phillips says transient room tax revenues have been on an uptick, suggesting an improvement in visitor numbers, “And that’s the kind of the thing that we can see month to month, you know, how that’s going.” “I think in the last year we have seen an upswing in that which means we’re having more people come to our area,” noted Phillips.
Phillips says McCreary County is situated on the northern end of the Big South Fork Recreation Area.?
