Business View Magazine | February 2021

163 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2021 ST . GEORGE REGIONAL A I RPORT Located in the southwest corner of Utah, Greater Zion is a destination that offers more than 2,400 square miles of adventure and inspiration. Zion National Park, the fourth most visited National Park in the United States, is the premier attraction, but Zion is only the beginning. Four state parks and a multitude of year-round recreational lands set the stage for a burgeoning mountain biking scene, some of the best off-highway vehicle riding in the country, scenic and challenging play at 13 top-rated golf courses, world- class cultural performances at Tuacahn Center for the Arts and so much more. The vibrant communities of St. George, Springdale, Hurricane, Ivins and towns in between offer a wide range of lodging options, dining experiences and access to outdoor pursuits through local outfitters and tour companies. Home to the 2021 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships, Greater Zion also is a world-class destination for sporting events, conferences and meetings – over 100,000 square feet of meeting space in the Convention Center and 1.5 million acres of adventure. Find your space to play, meet, work and adventure in Greater Zion! The Greater Zion Convention and Tourism Office is a transient-room-tax-funded entity of Washington County, Utah. ...... For more information, please visit our website www.greaterzion.com and never in the history of the county have we topped $1 million in a month. Then this summer, in the middle of a pandemic, August and September broke all records and topped that $1 million. I think the reason was that people from California, Colorado, Nevada and those states near us that were completely shut down, had had enough. “They had not left their houses in three or four months and when they looked around they saw that not only was St. George still open but that we had a lot of outdoor recreation which was really safe, what with Zion National Park and Grand Canyon National Park. So, you could come here, stay in hotels, eat in restaurants, go mountain biking…We had weekends in the summer when every single hotel room in the city was booked. And the airlines noticed as well. Business folks were not travelling as much, but tourism was up. Some routes were just cancelled for a while, like our flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth but when American Airlines announced they