Tourism is a $946 million industry in the Catskills region of New York, supporting nearly 17,000 jobs. Ulster County accounts for 45% of the region's tourism sales with $420 million in visitor spending in 2009. Tourism generated $257 million in direct labor income for the Catskills region and $437 million total including indirect and induced impacts. Tourism also generated $121 million in state and local taxes for the region in 2009, with Ulster County producing 45% of the tourism tax base.
16. Courtesy of G. Steve Jordan Photography, Water Street Market, New Paltz
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Tourism and agriculture are often linked as the number 1 and number 2 industries in the county and you can see why..
The bucolic scenery created by our working landscapes provide much of our “product.” People are drawn to the wide open spaces and places our farms and the farm families working them have created.
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