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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1,966 tourism-related jobs were saved in New Mexico because of a partnership between between the New Mexico Tourism Department and the New Mexico Small Business Development Center, according to a press release from NMTD. ....
NMTD: Partnership Helps Save 830 Tourism Jobs In 2020 NMTD News: SANTA FE A partnership between the New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) and the New Mexico Small Business Development Center to offer business counseling services to tourism-related small businesses helped save 830 tourism jobs and secure more than $27 million in equity investments in 2020. Since the launch of this partnership, tourism business counselors have conducted 11,290 documented contacts to tourism-related small businesses and provided 2,300 hours of direct business counseling to business owners. The tourism business counseling program provided direct counseling assistance to 655 tourism-related small businesses in New Mexico. Of those tourism-related small businesses that received counseling assistance, 43 percent were minority-owned businesses, 25 percent were women-owned businesses and 24 percent were veteran-owned businesses. ....