With final boat show of season underway, tourist commission gets to work on next year’s budget

Lake Cumberland Tourist Commission Executive Director Danielle Wilson is heading to her final boat show of the winter today to champion for tourists to spend their vacation time on Lake Cumberland. Wilson spoke with WJRS NEWS following Wednesday’s meeting of the tourist commission’s board of directors…

House Bill 8 passed during the 2022 legislative session. The bill takes up a long-standing transient room tax collection gap that omitted online travel companies.

Destination Frankfort is the Kentucky Travel Industry Association’s signature legislative event, and is an opportunity for the tourism industry to advocate on issues confronting the industry. Held each year during the General Assembly’s Legislative Session, KTIA members are provided with issues and advocacy information during the event’s first day, and then advocate their views on the second day during one-on-one meetings with state legislators.

Back here at home, Wilson said there will be an increase in the tourist commission’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year…