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Experience Utah!

Tourism

• “Utah makes money when tourists stay in hotels, eat in restaurants, and buy things in our stores. Whenever they spend money here, they also pay taxes. Tourism in 1994, for instance, was a $3 billion business. It made more money for Utah than agriculture and mining combined.” -Utah History Textbook

Recent Stats• 2010 - 75% of Utah’s visitors come from the

Western United States. • 2010 - International visitors accounted for an

estimated 721,140 visits in 2010. • 2011 - 4.7 million visitors enjoyed Utah’s 43

state parks • 2011 - 20.3 million passengers arrived at Salt

Lake International Airport during the year • 2011 - Utah’s 14 ski resorts hosted 3.8 million

skier days during the 2011/12 season

Moab

Utah National Parks

Arches National Park

Zion National Park

Canyonlands National Park

Monument Valley

Bryce Canyon National Park

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

Dinosaur National Monument

Bear Lake

Museums• Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point• Utah Museum of Natural History• Utah Museum of Fine Arts• Utah Children’s Museum• Railroad Museum• Western Mining and Railroad Museum• Springville Art Museum• Museum of Art at Brigham Young University• John Wesley Powell River History Museum

Lagoon

Great Salt Lake

Grand Staircase-Escalante

SKI UTAH

Temple Square

Lake Powell

Rainbow Bridge

Coral Pink Sand Dunes

Soldier Hollow Sledding Hill

Mountains Galore!

Movies Filmed in Utah(and this is only a few of them!)

• Dumb and Dumber• Pirates of the Caribbean• Indiana Jones and the Last

Crusade• Mission: Impossible• Better Off Dead• The Flintstones• Forrest Gump• Independence Day• Maverick• 127 Hours• High School Musical

• Jeremiah Johnson• Drive Me Crazy• Footloose- in LEHI• Planet of the Apes• Sandlot• City Slickers• Back to the Future• How the Grinch Stole

Christmas• Seven Brides for Seven

Brothers• Superman

Performing Arts

• Tuacahn in St. George• Utah Shakespeare Festival • Mormon Tabernacle Choir• College Performing Arts (BYU, Utah State,

University of Utah, UVU, etc…)• Hale Theater

Helpful Sites

• http://www.visitsouthernutah.com/• http://www.visitutah.com/• http://www.utah.com/arts/• http://www.utah.com/nationalparks/