Initivatives bolster tourism

The tourism industry, Nevada’s biggest economic sector (overall travel spending in the state was $59.4 billion in 2013) is taking steps to show more growth this year, which is good news for the Silver State. According to the Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT), 52.8 million people visited in the first two quarters of 2014, up 1.5 percent over the previous year. Claudia Vecchio, director of the Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, has some specific plans for improving those figure