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SALT LAKE CITY -- If you don't think tourism is important in Utah, then think about this: tourists could be saving you hundreds of dollars a year.
Managing director of the Utah Office of Tourism Lee Von der Esch says tourism is a great boost to help Utah's economy. "With a $7.2 billion industry, that translates to about an $800 savings per household taxes that Utahns don't have to pay because of the spending in the state," she said.
Utah's international tourism isn't recession proof, but it's getting help from Delta Airlines from their flight from Paris to Salt Lake and a nonstop flight from Tokyo to Salt Lake coming this June.
Von der Esch says locally people are staying home, saving money and seeing what's in their own backyard.
