Politics could affect ability to attract international visitors
By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal
RENO — The winner of November’s presidential election could determine just how successful Nevada and the United States will be in attracting international visitors.
Will our policies be warm, welcoming and inviting, thus encouraging repeat visits and word-of-mouth endorsements? Or will they be closed, with administrators suspicious of those buying plane tickets to visit the American Southwest?
A panel of tourism experts fielded questions about that last week at the Nevada Governor’s Global Tourism Summit at Reno’s Grand Sierra Resort.
Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison, who chairs the Nevada Commission on Tourism, moderated the panel, which made it clear that the outcome of the Nov. 8 election could have a far greater impact on Nevadans’ day-to-day lives and their jobs than they may have anticipated.
In her book “Seeing Hitler’s Germany” author K. Semmens points out that the Third Reich made an effort and seemed to succeed at attracting tourists. What one reviewer described as “Normality coexisting with atrocity.”
Of course, Hitler was clearly smarter than Trump and seemed more appealing to many intellectuals.
(Sorry Kae, but you did open the door)
Frank Sinatra became a Republican after the Kennedy’s quit talking to him over all the nefariousness at CalNeva.
Sammy Davis Jr and Mai Britt did not get married until AFTER the 1960 election , they lived in Skyland and their kids went to George Whitell High School.
Simply put, there is a ton of political history out here…all the interesting kind;)~
Mai drove an average appearing green station wagon; looked like a harried mother with a back seat full of kids. And a tendency to make illegal left turns.