ARCHIVED  November 1, 1995

Tourism’s changing face

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For years, community leaders here have debated how much of the town’s economy is driven by tourism.

Conservatives say that about 50 percent of the town’s economy derives from tourism, while others estimate it at closer to 90 percent. The debate finally drove a group of business people known as the Forward Estes Park Foundation to commission Jeffrey S. Zax and Nellie M. Hester from the University of Colorado College of Business to conduct a study of tourism in Estes Park. The study, “Economic Growth and its Sources in Estes Park,” was published in August 1996, but it left unanswered the…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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