Qualified Trade Association Contract

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Qualified Trade Association Contract
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Promote Alaska as a top visitor destination, communicating and promoting the tourism industry as one of the state's major economic forces.

End Result A: Interest and awareness of Alaska as a travel destination is increased.

The 2006 Images of Alaska Study identified 20 million high potential visitors to Alaska, which represents an 11.11% decrease since 2000. The next time the data will be updated is 2012.

End Result B: The number of visitors to Alaska is increased.

	Tourism's five-year, 30% growth to over 1.7 million summer visitors showed a slight 0.4% decrease in 2008, a steeper loss is anticipated for 2009.
	International visitors to Alaska increased 10.5% from 172,000 in 2007 to 190,000 in 2008.

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