Loading ...For Beckie Nix, the most important fact about the new daily train from Lynchburg to Washington, D.C., is the fact that it comes back. “We like to (call it) the new Amtrak service from D.C. to Lynchburg,” said Nix, tourism director of the Lynchburg Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau.
This year she wants to use that train to get more people to travel to Central Virginia and spend more money at local hotels, restaurants and stores. Wednesday morning, Nix explained the local tourism program’s travel marketing plans for 2010 to a crowd of about 50 people representing local hotels, restaurants, tourist attractions and governments.
Tourism is important to the communities because it brings new money into the local economy — $139 million in 2008, Nix said.
Read the full article by Bryan Gentry, published January 13, 2010: www2.newsadvance.com/lna/business/local/article/tourism_officials_tout_amtraks_potential_to_draw_d.c._visitors/23136.
