Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Suzanne Fletcher (right), director of the newly formed Washington Tourism Alliance, walks through Waitsburg with Karen Stanton Gregutt of Waitsburg Cottages and Joy Smith of Hugs, Gifts & Collectibles and Town Hall.
WAITSBURG - Getting tourists and travelers to the state, then across the mountains to eastern Washington will be one of the main goals for the state's new privatesector tourism alliance, its newly appointed director said Friday.
"This corner of the world (and state) is a diamond in the rough," said Suzanne Fletcher, who was appointed earlier this summer as the head of the Washington Tourism Alliance.
The state Legislature axed the last remaining funding for the government-run state tourism office. At $2 million in annual spending, the anemic effort was already far behind that of Washington's n...
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