Tourism on the Rise in Missouri

There is good news to report for the Lake of the Ozarks as tourism is on the rise here and across the state of Missouri. According to Governor Nixon’s office, Missouri welcomed a record number of visitors for 2015 as 40.4 million people visited the SHOW ME state. Tourists spend more than $12.4 billion dollars which is a 30 percent increase since 2009. Most of the visitors were from Kansas and Illinois, but there were also 400,000 international tourists that visited the state in 2014 which is a 7.5 percent increase from 2013.
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