The Georgia Southern Economic Monitor reported a strong finish to 2019 but predicting a big slowdown in the first half of 2020
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A look inside Savannah’s service industry—and how the big party doesn’t always serve them
THERE ARE so many people who make St. Patrick’s Day a reality for thousands of revelers. For every beer you drink, a bartender pours it, and a bar manager stocked […]
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Georgia Southern’s Q1 2019 economic monitor shows growth sustained by tourism, manufacturing
Georgia Southern University’s latest Economic Monitor, which analyzes Q1 2019 data and identifies trends affecting the regional economy, reports that Savannah’s metro economy opened 2019 with notably slower growth compared […]
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Strive for sustainability, not ‘balance’
Too many tourists descending on a destination can degrade and even destroy the cultural, environmental, and historic resources that made it a place people wanted to visit in the first place
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Editor’s Note: Learning from Charleston’s successes – and mistakes
Every major tourism-oriented challenge that Savannah has faced, from trying to regulate Short Term Vacation Rentals to trying to control the proliferation of new hotels, Charleston has had to deal with first.
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Wanted: More political will on cycling issues
It’s been almost five years since the last bicycle infrastructure project in Savannah was completed.
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Time to rewrite the Short-Term Vacation Rental Ordinance
The ordinance was written by and for the entrenched interests of downtown property owners, seeking to preserve their dominance in the short-term rental market, and hoteliers seeking to limit the growth of new, competing supply in a market where they are already concerned with over-building.
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Tourism in Savannah: Balancing journey and destination
It’s a tricky business, this balancing act of maintaining a good quality of life and showing our guests a good time. And we’re certainly not alone.
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Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker talks tourism to packed house; two more events tonight and tomorrow
“I’m not sure you’ve decided who you are and where you want to go,” she said.
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Preservation study shows trouble in paradise
What the ‘Beyond Tourism’ report calls “emerging quality of life criteria,” were regarded very differently up until around 50 years ago, before we began reconfiguring our built environment exclusively around the needs of automobiles.
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The Strangest Question I’ve Ever Been Asked While Leading a Tour
She had an eighth grade grasp of American history, but she had apparently paid attention on her trolley tour, and had some unresolved stories she wanted to have elaborated. I took it as a challenge.
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Heart attack over a hotel tax
HAPPENING late in the evening of March 31, some hoped against hope that it was just an elaborate April Fools Day prank. But the literally last-minute inclusion of a whopping […]