Category: Tourism

  • This is making the local news (America's fastest growing small towns): To determine which smaller cities are growing fastest, we used census data to calculate the population growth rate between 2007 and 2010 for every Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) with fewer than 100,000 people. These statistical areas are geographic entities defined by the…

  • Via the latest issue of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (link added): The 2012 annual meeting of the SEA will be held at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 16–18, 2012. Authors wishing to have a paper considered for the AERE sessions should send a .pdf file by e-mail…

  • Instead of working on what I just told Tim I'd be working on, I'll post this: Gov. Bev Perdue signed a bill into law Thursday that could help two large craft breweries to open operations in western North Carolina. The legislation – House Bill 796 — won nearly unanimous support among lawmakers. Perdue issued this statement: "My…