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LOWVILLE — The leaves are changing color and the Lewis County Chamber of Commerce is providing the opportunity see the autumn splendor while visiting local businesses along the way.
Information on how recreational opportunities benefit the Tug Hill region certainly brought smiles to the faces of business and community leaders.
Various governmental entities and private organizations commissioned the Center for Community Studies at Jefferson Community College in Watertown and consulting firm Camoin 310 in Saratoga Springs to conduct a survey earlier this year and analyze the responses. The survey collected data on what economic effect snowmobilers have when they come to the area.
The good news is that non-local snowmobile enthusiasts spend an average of $192 in Tug Hill per day during the season. With more than 18,000 non-local users coming to the region for more than 347,000 days a year, this results in $28.8 million in wages for 866 jobs and $81.6 million in sales attributed to snowmobile activity, according to Lewis County Department of Economic Development. Lewis County alone sees $445,000 in annual tax revenues from the snowmobile season.
LOWVILLE â That recreation and tourism can bring significant revenue to a host area is not new information. That local and visiting snowmobilers laid down an estimated $101.1 million annually in direct spending in the Tug Hill region is.
The new information is an analysis of data collected in a survey of snowmobilers conducted by Jefferson Community College Center for Community Studies in the first quarter of the year.
The resulting report released this month offers tough to arrive upon estimates like the number of people who come to Tug Hill specifically for snowmobiling and the economic and tax impact the industry has on the four Tug Hill counties â Lewis, Jefferson, Oswego and Oneida.
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