Letters To The Editor

West Virginia just had its best tourism year on record: 78 million visitors, $6.8 billion spent, $643 million in state and local taxes, one in every fifteen jobs in the state. Hardy County’s share of that story is bigger than most people here realize.

In the last year the state measured it county by county, visitors spent $41.6 million in Hardy County, up more than half from the year before, the fastest growth of any county in West Virginia.