by - March 11, 2021 12:10 pm
Arkansas’ travel and tourism industry, which was enjoying more than a decade of growth, posted double-digit percentage declines in key categories in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic that hit…
by - January 12, 2021 12:02 pm
Arkansas’ travel and tourism industry is showing slight improvement but is not close to returning to the record-setting trends of 2019 that were continuing into early 2020 before the COVID-19…
by - November 8, 2020 4:55 pm
While the pace of decline is slowing somewhat, Arkansas’ tourism industry continues to face daunting economic headwinds for large and small businesses in a sector likely to not see real…
by - September 2, 2020 2:39 pm
Arkansas’ tourism industry is not in ICU, but COVID-19 certainly has one of the state’s largest economic sectors on its heels. The state’s 2% tourism tax is down 30.4% between…
by - May 13, 2020 3:23 pm
Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax revenue in January and February was up 13.2% compared with the same period in 2019. The tax was up 7.2% in 2019. February revenue of $1.366…
by - March 2, 2020 12:13 pm
Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax revenue in 2019 was up 7.2% compared with the same period in 2018. June and July were the first two months the collection was above $1.8…
by - January 21, 2020 3:48 pm
Arkansas’ travel and tourism economy gained momentum through 2019, with the pace of gains increasing in the September-October period. The state’s 2% tourism tax revenue between January and October was…
by - November 20, 2019 2:13 pm
Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax revenue between January and August was up 6.2% compared with the same period in 2018, and also a gain from the 5.2% year-over-year increase through the…
by - September 16, 2019 11:14 am
There is no recession in Arkansas’ travel and tourism industry. The sector continues to see gains in growth, with the state’s 2% tourism tax revenue between January and June up…
by - August 6, 2019 11:41 am
January-April hospitality tax collections among 17 cities surveyed for the Arkansas Tourism Ticker were up 3.9% compared with the same period in 2018, and the state’s 2% tourism tax revenue…
by - June 18, 2019 3:22 pm
January-February hospitality tax collections among 17 cities surveyed for the Arkansas Tourism Ticker were up 2.1% compared with the same period in 2018, and the state’s 2% tourism tax revenue…
by - March 18, 2019 6:30 pm
Collections of Arkansas’ 2% tourism set a new record in 2018 and hospitality tax collections among 17 Arkansas cities surveyed for the Arkansas Tourism ticker topped the $50 million mark…
by - August 5, 2018 5:31 pm
The state’s tourism industry showed signs of moderating in the back half of 2017, but picked up the pace in the first four months of 2018, according to the Arkansas…
by - June 7, 2018 11:40 am
The travel and tourism industry in Northeast Arkansas sent mixed signals in 2017, with the state’s 2% tourism tax posting gains in most of the key counties, but Jonesboro hotel…
by - February 1, 2018 11:56 am
Arkansas’ tourism sector continues to show gains in 2017 even against the tough comparisons of robust growth in 2016, with hospitality tax collections and job numbers up through the first…
by - October 18, 2017 3:32 pm
After dipping slightly in the first four months of the year, the state’s second largest industry posted a new record 2% tourism tax collection and tourism job growth returned to…
by - July 11, 2017 4:52 pm
Collections of Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax set records in March and April, but the number of tourism jobs in the state fell slightly compared to 2016. Overall, the pace of…
by - May 18, 2017 3:23 pm
Tourism jobs and collections of the state’s 2% tourism tax are down in the first two months of 2017, with hospitality tax collections among 17 cities posting a gain, according…
by - March 11, 2017 1:30 pm
Editor’s note: The Arkansas Tourism Ticker is sponsored by the Arkansas Hospitality Association. –––––––––––– Arkansas’ tourism industry posted broad gains in employment and revenue during 2016, with the annual numbers…
by - November 15, 2016 11:29 am
Up against healthy gains that began to emerge in the second half of 2015, the pace of Arkansas’ tourism industry growth has slowed but it remains on pace for record…
