Lake Tahoe sets example for tourism

For years, mountain towns in places like Colorado and Utah essentially closed down when the chairlifts stopped spinning in the springtime. Locals might have embraced summer opportunities, but ski area marketing departments were less apt to aggressively pursue summer traffic.That’s all changed, said Tom Foley, director of operations for DestiMetrics — a Denver, Colo., based organization who tracks mountain lodging bookings at 19 western mountain destinations in California, Nevada, Col