BY DAVID SIBRAY FOR WV EXPLORER
Governor Jim Justice announced today that West Virginia’s tourism industry grew for the second consecutive year in 2018. The two-year growth trend reverses years of decline and outpaces national growth by 58 percent, he said.
The finding comes from yearly economic impact research released just on the heels of the industry’s annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism. The research shows traveler spending in West Virginia grew at a rate of 6.5 percent totaling $4.55 billion in 2018…
How about coupling agriculture with tourism, especially farmers markets. Virginia included agriculture with tourism and now has a 2.2 billion dollar business.