Law could help tourism in the Valley
May 30, 2009
Snoqualmie is looking at partnering with other cities to better market to tourists after a recent amendment to state law, which now allows King County cities to create tourism promotion areas.
The governor signed the amendment into law May 11. Before the new legislation, King County cities were barred from creating the tourism promotion areas. Now Snoqualmie hopes to take advantage of the new legislation and create a tourism promotion area, or TPA for short.
TPA’s allow cities to collect hotel room taxes of a few dollars per night to pay for marketing and promotion efforts. Snoqualmie’s TPA is in the preliminary planning stage, and the proposed per room tax rates have not been set.
