Right. And then you went from 19,000 visitors in 2007 to 50,000 last year, a 30,000 jump.
AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota, Chairman
I think if every community that has a park have--make sure that there's money for the park to bring those kids into that...
Thanks to the support and work of this committee, and particularly Senators Rockefeller, Klobuchar, Dorgan, and Ensign, ...
We're here today to examine the value of national parks as tourist destinations.
This is a new marketing technique.
I just wanted to go back to what can be tension, but can turn into a positive thing.
We all talk about bringing peace to the world. I can think of no better way to encourage peace than to encourage people ...
If we didn't have Wi-Fi, they wouldn't come to our park.
Every 1 percent we lost to that international tourism business--we've gone down 20 percent since 9/11--has cost us 170,0...
So, the idea is, on their iPods, these people that are traveling across country, they can download info on the park.