$6 million spent by 1.3 million visitor days is what drives tourism on Main Street

$6 million spent by 1.3 million visitor days is what drives tourism on Main Street

Remarkably, it is often difficult to quantify what might seem obvious. For example, how many visitors come to the Valley every month? How much money do they spend? Are they traveling from far away, or are they in a secondary home? How much of an impact do visitors even have on the local economy?  Those questions, which have long been difficult to untangle through traditional methods such as surveys and limited studies, have now been answered by …