Sentences with phrase «summer tourism»

Increased traffic from summer tourism can increase the risk for collisions.

«There is no better way to welcome people to the Rockaways at the start of summer tourism season than to make it easier to get there with cashless tolling,» said MTA Interim Executive Director Veronique Hakim.

In a move that this blogger thinks may have unintended and negative consequences for summer tourism in Cape May, N.J., the tiny town has revoked its 30 - year ban on small Lycra swimsuits commonly known as Speedos.

The state comptroller's office estimated Wednesday that a work stoppage could cost New York $ 50 million a day in lost economic activity and be insurmountable to some Long Island businesses relying on summer tourism.

MTA Interim Executive Director Veronique Hakim says cashless tolls is a good way to attract summer tourism in the Rockaway community.

Tedisco said sales tax is an important source of revenue that is often generated by summer tourism.

As visitors and residents enjoy Upstate's incredible summer tourism destinations, they'll be able to see and do more thanks to the arrival of modern transportation options,» said Greg Biryla, the executive director of Unshackle Upstate.

Obama's stop at the museum, to promote summer tourism on its 75th anniversary, will also provide a boost to Gov. Cuomo, who only last week announced a 50 percent increase in the state's tourism budget.

Town officials are faced with scheduling a much - needed drainage project on Mill Hill Road so it causes the least impact to stores and restaurants during a busy summer tourism season.

The LIRR unions» chief negotiator says he wants to make a deal with the MTA that would delay a possible July strike until after Labor Day, sparing Long Island's summer tourism business and buying more time to negotiate a contract settlement.

Advocates have pointed out that Saratoga Springs, with its entrenched horse racing industry and summer tourism boom, needs immigrant workers to survive.

The scene would have been a civics textbook come to life — had that textbook been produced by the state of Maryland's summer tourism industry.

The road can be clogged in January and February, the height of the Australian summer tourism season.

While this year's summer tourism season was very good, it doesn't mean it can't be better, Little said.

«We opened the brewpub in January 1996 in a place known for summer tourism, and opening at that time allowed us to focus on capturing the local community,» CEO Richard Norgrove Sr. says.

She knows that expanding offshore drilling to the mid-Atlantic would threaten New Jersey's beaches and the thousands of jobs that rely on summer tourism.

«The summer tourism season is just around the corner and the availability of ridesharing services across the state will be a major plus offering economic, environmental and public safety benefits,» Seward said in a statement.

Fifty - one percent of the $ 23 million spent to air the summer tourism campaign was directed out - of - state, to places within a five hour drive of New York including Montreal, Quebec, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The center's seven - day - a-week operating hours are not expected to be affected by the exhibit upgrades, which will be largely conducted between the fall and spring months to avoid the summer tourism season.

The campaign is being planned for the summer tourism season, he said, and will include print and TV advertising.

With a summer tourism season developing, employment numbers ought to look better, and that is to Walker's benefit.

Since then, the top priority has been optimizing the network, which stretches from the foot of Niagara Falls State Park to Third Street, before the summer tourism season begins.

With the summer tourism and concert season about to begin, Cuomo says he's also directed state law enforcement officials to step up security and patrols at high - profile locations statewide.

The fire also melted one of McGinnes's utility trucks and caused rolling blackouts at the height of the summer tourism season, when the Block Island population balloons past 20,000.

In Southern Europe, climate change is projected to worsen conditions (high temperatures and drought) in a region already vulnerable to climate variability, and to reduce water availability, hydropower potential, summer tourism and, in general, crop productivity.