Tourism experts ‘cautiously optimistic’ about summer travel to Colorado as tariff anxiety sidelines visitors

Tourism experts ‘cautiously optimistic’ about summer travel to Colorado as tariff anxiety sidelines visitors

Tourism expert Tom Foley describes his outlook for summer travel in destinations like Colorado as “cautiously optimistic” — a term to describe the combination of rising revenues and wavering summer bookings. For skiers, winter travel plans can be largely reliant on snowfall — which helps to explain why Colorado’s winter tourism season had a weaker ending than expected. Data from 17 locations spread across seven western states — Colorado, Utah, C…