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Beaver Island Chamber reports first tourist information office season, 1988

Also 1988 Beaver Island Tourist Information Office · Chamber tourism annual report

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TypeEvent
Date1988-10
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1988-10
Kind
Publication
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce reported on its first Tourist Information Office season in 1988: 1,392 visitors, 159 phone inquiries, and 132 mailings. The report also preserves visitor-discovery survey results and the office’s income and expense totals.

Evidence limits

The report is a Chamber annual summary, not an audited financial statement or complete tourism census.

Sources

  1. Reports 1,392 office visitors, 159 phone inquiries, 132 mailings, visitor-discovery survey percentages, map sales and donations, and $2,324.78 in operating expenses from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-page October issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the Chamber report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-10_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Chamber reports first tourist information office season, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-chamber-tourist-information-office-1988/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce Tourist Information Office annual report, Beaver Beacon, October 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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