Pa. promotes its tourism industry with the launch of new slogan.
Pennsylvania has invited tourists to pursue their happiness in the Keystone State since 2016 but now Gov. Josh Shapiro wants people to see it as more of an escape.
“Pennsylvania has so much to offer from the RailRiders games to award-winning restaurants to incredible hikes through our state parks, which by the way are free in Pennsylvania, to some of the most important – let me scratch that – the most important historic sites in the United States of America,” Shapiro said to the crowd gathered on the baseball field. “Here in Pennsylvania, let me tell you something. We have got it all.
Tourism is big business in Pennsylvania, drawing 192.4 million tourists to the state in 2022 and supporting more than 486,000 jobs, according to the latestBuilding up tourism is part of Shapiro’s economic development plan. He is proposing to boost tourism promotion spending by $15 million in his proposed 2024-25 state budget.
“We want to show the rest of the world that Pennsylvania is indeed the great American getaway,” the governor said. “We are poised to do great things in Pennsylvania and investing in tourism is going to help us accomplish a great deal of that.”
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