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2020 TDA budget approaches $20 million mark

May 29, 2019July 10, 2019 Virginia Daffron 132 Views Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, Mountain Xpress, tourism

As annual hotel occupancy tax revenues approach $20 million, the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority on May 29 considered how to divide that increasingly juicy pie to continue to drive tourism to the area.

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City gives $975,000 grant back to TDA

February 3, 2019March 16, 2019 Virginia Daffron 174 Views Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, local government, news, tourism

Plans for the Beaucatcher Greenway are on hold, and the city released a $975,000 grant awarded by the Tourism Product Development Fund of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority to partially fund the greenway’s construction back to the TDA.

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Can the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway beat the odds?

April 8, 2018April 15, 2018 Virginia Daffron 266 Views Asheville, environment, growth, Mountain Xpress, news, sustainability, tourism

At a time when rising construction costs are seriously threatening the prospects for several proposed local greenways, the Woodfin Greenway

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Can the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway beat the odds?

August 4, 2017April 11, 2018 Virginia Daffron 245 Views Asheville, development, environment, Mountain Xpress, news, sustainability, tourism

While other planned greenways have bogged down in the face of rising costs — leaving the timeline for their construction

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Tourism and its discontents

August 11, 2016August 21, 2016 Virginia Daffron 546 Views Asheville, Business, Mountain Xpress, sustainability, tourism

Becky Anderson — a retiree who served as Asheville’s first director of economic development, among other prominent roles — says

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