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Report: Percentage of Montanans Who Believe Tourism Benefits Outweigh Negative Impacts at Two-Decade Low

April 11, 2023/

TOPSHOT - Venice's citizens and tourists pass through turnstiles, limiting the massive flows of tourists in the main streets of in Venice, on May 1, 2018. - Venice's mayor Luigi Brugnaro introduced these turnstiles gates, at Piazzale Roma, outside the train station, and others crucial points of the city, as an attempt to manage the crowd, increase safety and free up the citys most clogged thoroughfares. Locals and regular visitors in possession of a Venezia Unica card would be allowed to pass through these gates, but anyone without the correct documents would be directed along other streets. (Photo by ANDREA PATTARO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDREA PATTARO/AFP/Getty Images)

Study by the Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research shows increasing negative attitude of residents toward visitors as tourism statewide grows

By Micah Drew

 

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