Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Tourists will visit the Granite State this winter in numbers greater than before the pandemic. The New Hampshire Department of Travel and Tourism is predicting this.
Tourism officials are expecting a good winter on the basis of a number of factors and are launching a campaign to convince people to come.
Lori Harnois, director of the New Hampshire Department of Travel and Tourism, said that they target visitors throughout New England and into eastern Canada to come to New Hampshire to have fun here.
When it comes to tourism in the state, winter is the third-most important season, behind summer. It is the busiest, and fall.
The department is forecasting that about 3 million visitors will come to New Hampshire this winter and they’ll spend about $1.5 billion.
Adding to the optimism, at Nault’s Powersports, owners recently received a fresh delivery of snowmobiles, and they said the supply chain problems are receding.
The ski areas are still what most people associate with winter sports. The department is also looking to target other outdoor enthusiasts.
Like backcountry skiing and skinning to fat biking down their mountains, Harnois said.
At S&W Sports, there are plenty of fat bikes available, and if the snow doesn’t fall, it really doesn’t matter.
“Now, if you’ve got rocks poking through some snow, maybe you don’t have good coverage. A fat bike doesn’t care. It’ll hit the rocks. It will hit the snow and just keep going,” Dan Mutz, of S&W Sports, said.
The recent snowfall on Sunday and Monday was just what some were officials and businesses were looking for.
Cruz said it was a hard winter last year, but they’re hoping that this early snowfall is a sign that this year will be different.
Tags: new hampshire, Visitors
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