I believe Maine is ''Vacationland''
Changing from something that didn't involve at least a portion of the State Motto was not an option - because, yes, that was political.
T&T works pretty hard. But we haven't seen tourism really grow.
I think it went from around $6 billion twenty years ago to around $8 billion today. So not really much more than inflation.
Summer has always been the strongest, and more and more of that is boating-related. Boating has actually slowly creeped into improving the spring and autumn numbers and is clearly the reason the lakes area does so well.
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