Tourism
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Travel and tourism took a hard hit from COVID-19, but the Wyoming Office of Tourism can rest easy – in the Equality State, it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been. The Wyoming Department of Tourism released its Economic Impact of Travel report for 2020. Oregon-based company Dean Runyon Associates compiled the research. As expected,…
The tourist season is just now starting to ramp back up again here in the bighorn basin and we all know what that means… People not knowing how to conduct themselves around the majestic wildlife in the park. This is par for the course, but it never gets any less frustrating to us locals to…
Even Yellowstone isn’t immune from summer construction season, with three significant projects underway while tourists traverse the park in Summer 2021. Three major road construction projects will occur in Yellowstone National Park in 2021. Only one of the three projects will involve a complete closure. The other two will cause delays and/or traffic pattern changes…
The vaccination sensation continues in Park County, but there are still more vaccines than people signing up for clinics with summer right around the corner. Park County Public Health has released the latest vaccination numbers for Park County. Once again, a healthy number of residents are making the healthy choice to get vaccinated. As of…
Park County may not see pre-pandemic tourism for a few more years, but there’s every reason to believe Summer 2021 will be full of tourists and revenue. As the nation and the world recover from the pandemic, Park County may be positioned better than many other places to recover quickly. Over one-third of the county…
Wyoming’s first visitors in 2021 found the cost of lodging had increased from 2020, with a new lodging tax that went into effect Jan. 1. During the March 2020 budget session the Wyoming Legislature approved House Enrolled Act No. 7. The Legislative Service Office said the act imposes a 5% tax on sales of lodging…
Park County’s July tourism numbers show the trends we’ve all come to expect. The Park County Travel Council’s released their latest Marketing Director’s Report for the year-to-date in 2020. In addition to the usual collection of publications and other media that have featured Cody in a shining light, it also collected the hard numbers of…
Yellowstone sends an urgent message about off-trailing. On the surface, the Park’s message to tourists is simple and often-repeated: staff on the marked trails and boardwalks when visiting. But this rule appears to be especially disregarded this season. Park officials are reporting several “social trails” created by visitors and not designated by boardwalks or markers.…
There are a number of changes that could affect your next Yellowstone trip. As the pandemic progresses, various amenities are opening while others are changing their offerings and practices. Last Friday, the Sandpiper Lodge at Lake Yellowstone Hotel opened, offering a limited number of their standard lodge rooms, per Yellowstone’s hotel practice of only opening…
Businesses operating in Yellowstone are making summer reservations as they normally would. While Xanterra has said they won’t open any of their concessionaires until June 15th at the earliest, that doesn’t mean that Yellowstone won’t be opening until that point. Sunny Burns, the owner of Cody Wyoming Adventures, says that during a conference call with…