(TAN): The Nevada Commission on Tourism has recently approved grants worth USD 301,575 for the promotion of tourism in the rural areas of the United States’ Nevada state.
Funding from the Rural Marketing Grants programme will be contributed towards marketing projects which will translate to overnight stays and local tax revenues for the communities involved. The Rural Marketing Grants programme is not funded by the state’s general fund; instead Nevada Division of Tourism or Travel Nevada gets three-eighths of 1% of room tax revenue as its operations budget, a portion of which supports the programme.
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The funding is the second for fiscal year 2020, which started from July 1, 2019 and will continue until June 30, 2020.
Nevada Commission on Tourism’s Chairperson, Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall said the programme attracts visitors to the rural areas.
“Tourism is vital to rural Nevada. The Rural Marketing Grants program helps drive visitation to our rural areas. Tourism not only boosts jobs, but sales and lodging taxes that go right back to the community to pay for roads, schools, and other municipal services,” she added.
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Beneficiaries are offered the grant upon providing a 50-50 match in funds or volunteer hours, except when a waiver is permitted. The grants are dispersed in the form of reimbursements to the recipients upon completion of the projects and documentation of funding details.
While White Pine County Tourism and Recreation Board received a USD 4,000 grant to publicise a new train-and-bike experience in the city of Ely, the Goldwell Open Air Museum, an outdoor sculpture park near Beatty, got USD 3,000 to promote a play about the Belgian artist who created some of the Goldwell sculptures.
