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Big Sky Chamber of Commerce wants $500,000 to market Big Sky

May 28, 2009 /

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About $500,000 collected through resort taxes should be spent on nationwide marketing of Big Sky to "stop the downward spiral of our visitor patterns experienced this winter," the Big Sky Chamber of Commerce said.

A five-person board will decide in June how to allocate money from the resort taxes.

"I don’t want to paint a picture that we are in more of a crisis than anywhere else, but we’re feeling it," Chamber of Commerce executive Marne Hayes said. "If we’re looking at just our bed (lodging) tax, for the overall year we were down 8 percent."

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