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A customer returns a car at Dollar Car Rental in Missoula, MT, July, 13, 2021. Dollar Car Rental is one of many national chains experiencing a shortage in their rental fleet.
Visiting Glacier National Park had been on Jim Schneider’s bucket list for years. So, he and his wife booked flights to Montana from Omaha, Nebraska and rented a cabin in June to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary. But a few months before the flight Schneider realized they hadn’t reserved a car.
“There was not a rental car to be found anywhere around Kalispell,” Schneider says.
A shortage of microchips around the world has slowed car production and limited rental car supply after some companies sold off vehicles during last year’s pandemic-related economic downturn.
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Montana urges visitors to act responsibly, be on best behavior in the wild
By: KPAX Staff
and last updated 2021-07-06 16:03:29-04
MISSOULA â MISSOULA, Mont. (KPAX) You might call it a COVID crest . An explosion of interest in Montana s outdoors starting last year as alternatives to the lockdown life and continuing strong into 2021. Great for the state s $7 billion outdoor recreation business. Not so much for those coping with crowds on their favorite trail, or lake.
A new marketing campaign aims to educate and head off bad behavior . We ve heard stories about really poor behavior last year with some of these, what was potentially was thought of as, new visitors coming, said Jeremy Sage, Interim Director of the Institute for Tourism and Recreation at the University of Montana.
Montana urges visitors to act responsibly, be on best behavior in the wild
By: KPAX Staff
and last updated 2021-07-06 16:03:29-04
MISSOULA â MISSOULA, Mont. (KPAX) You might call it a COVID crest . An explosion of interest in Montana s outdoors starting last year as alternatives to the lockdown life and continuing strong into 2021. Great for the state s $7 billion outdoor recreation business. Not so much for those coping with crowds on their favorite trail, or lake.
A new marketing campaign aims to educate and head off bad behavior . We ve heard stories about really poor behavior last year with some of these, what was potentially was thought of as, new visitors coming, said Jeremy Sage, Interim Director of the Institute for Tourism and Recreation at the University of Montana.
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