Blue Ridge Parkway tourism creates $1.3 billion in economic benefits, report says

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Blue Ridge Parkway tourism creates $1.3 billion in economic benefits, report says

A National Park Service report shows that 14. 1 million visitors to the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2020 spent $1. 1 billion in communities near the park. That spending supported 15,500 local jobs and had a cumulative benefit of $1. 3 billion to the local economies. For North Carolina, visitors spent $1. 3 billion in 2020, contributing to 20,600 jobs, according to the report. North Carolina ($2 billion) was only topped by California ($2. 7 billion) in…