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Product Development
Tourism Product Development Resource Team
Increasingly in rural Georgia tourism is often the
preferred economic development strategy within a
community, and it plays a significant role in most
communities across the state.
Special interest tourism like nature based tourism
and heritage tourism create opportunity for
communities to identify, package and market their
existing assets.
Communities throughout the state have
substantial assets that need to be identified and
incorporated into their overall economic
development efforts. Increased tourism product
can translate into local job creation and additional
revenue in the form of property tax, bed tax and
sales tax. The state ultimately benefits as well
from additional revenues.
Limited resources means collaboration among
various local groups and agencies is essential to
enhancing and developing local tourism product.
Additionally, when multiple state agencies work as
Team Georgia collaboratively on tourism product
development, Georgia wins and the visitor it goes
away with a unique experience.
Carroll County Georgia
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