ARKANSAS, USA — Tourism is a $9.2 billion industry in Arkansas, and more than 48 million people visited the state last year, according to a report shared Monday by the governor and the state Department of Parks, Heritage & Tourism.
The study, commissioned by the department and conducted by Tourism Economics of Philadelphia, said the number of Arkansas visitors in 2022 rose by 15% from the previous year, and that they spent an additional $1.2 billion over 2021.
“We can, with great confidence, say that Arkansas’ tourism industry has fully recovered — and then some — from setbacks of the COVID pandemic,” Shea Lewis, secretary of the state Department of Parks, Heritage & Tourism, said in a news release accompanying the report.
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