The Campbell County Joint Powers Lodging Tax Board voted 5-1 at a special meeting on April 26 to move forward with a contract with Zartico, a Utah-based geofencing software company that will track spending habits during this year’s National High School Finals Rodeo (NHSFR) in July. While some in the community were supportive, other questioned the need, constitutionality, and intent behind these plans.
The Campbell County Convention and Visitors Bureau will roll out geofencing technology to track rodeo participants and visitors. They're doing so to get a better understanding of where money is spent in the community and how it can help benefit the local economy. Other information, such travel routes to and from the event site, is also a focus that local officials and businesses can use in future decision making. But while some are optimistic of what this could mean for the local economy, others are skeptical of these plans.
Wyoming is seeing more hotel bookings and travelers who stop at welcome or visitor’s centers, state travel and tourism director Diane Shober said. | eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Wyoming city already preparing for huge 2024 camping event
JONATHAN GALLARDO, Gillette News Record
May 31, 2021
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Cam-plex Executive Director Jeff Esposito surveys an open field owned by the multi-event facility near Gillette, Wyoming on May 19, 2021. Cam-plex officials plan to level the field for the 2024 International Pathfinders Camporee, a Seventh-day Adventist event expected to draw 55,000 people and be the largest the city has ever hosted. (Mike Moore/Gillette News Record via AP)Mike Moore/AP
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) Of all the multi-million dollar facilities at Cam-plex, ones costing about $600 have generated the most interest recently.
Cam-plex officials have started the mammoth task of making 55,000 people from 100 countries feel at home for two weeks in 2024 when Gillette hosts the International Pathfinders Camporee. Cam-plex’s ability to attract the huge event can be attributed in no small part to the immense facilities that past community leaders