Tourists spent $3.7 billion in Salt Lake County in 2016, supporting 54,000 jobs
(Francisco Kjolseth | Salt Lake Tribune file photo ) Travel and tourism provided more than 54,000 jobs in Salt Lake County in 2016, with the largest individual sector involving employment in bars and restaurants — nearly 10,000 positions.
Mike Gorrell is a business writer, one of many positions he's held at The Trib — covering natural disasters, the weather, water, environment, Olympics, tourism, skiing and coal mining — since joining the paper in 1983 after nine years (four year part-time) at the Murray-based weekly newspaper The Green Sheet.
Mike Gorrell is a business writer, one of many positions he's held at The Trib — covering natural disasters, the weather, water, environment, Olympics, tourism, skiing and coal mining — since joining the paper in 1983 after nine years (four year part-time) at the Murray-based weekly newspaper The Green Sheet.