Portland Maine tour competition is great for everyone!
On June 1, 2013 the Bangor daily News ran a story on the new tours in Portland and the growth Portland was seeing. Check out the article below. Guides say Portland’s tour wars good for business Want to catch lobsters? Dine in the city’s trendy eateries? Be scared by ghost stories? This spring there are more specialty tours to show visitors around Maine’s largest city than ever before. But instead of spreading the tourism dollars too thin, the eclectic array of choices means more business for everyone. “Are they detracting from one another? I think they actually encourage people to take more tours,” said Barbara Whitten, president and CEO of the Greater Portland Convention and Visitors Bureau. “There are upward of 7 million people who come into this region [annually], so I think we’ve got enough [tourists] to sustain them…