1/31/2007

Your county as Barbados

Franklin County, PA, is (to me) an utterly ordinary county except that some Civil War trails pass through it. If you could re-imagine the burning of Chambersburg on a visit there, you would have maxed out the county's ACW jollies potential.

Imagine my surprise to learn that
Tourism employment represents an estimated 15 percent of the jobs in the county economy, according to a 2003 study ... More than $325 million in revenue was generated in Franklin and Perry counties from transportation, food, lodging, shopping and entertainment.
An economy with 15% of its prople in tourism trades and they want to increase that? Any Caribbean island steers its econmomy in the opposite direction.