Celebrating travel and tourism

Travel and tourism: The National Travel & Tourism Week Rally Day celebration took place Tuesday at the Arkansas Welcome Center located at Highway 167 and 82. Madison Murphy, board chairman of Murphy USA, shown above, was recognized by Brenda Clark, manager of the Welcome Center. Murphy was named Tourism Person of the Year in February for his work with the Murphy Arts District. El Dorado Mayor Frank Hash gave a proclamation announcing the week of May 6-12 as El Dorado Tourism Week throughout El Dorado and Union County. Additional speakers included Beth Brumley of Main Street El Dorado and John Lowery of the South Arkansas Arts Center. According to Hash’s proclamation, tourism contributed $7.8 billion to Arkansas in 2017 with more than 29 million visitors traveling through the state.

CORRECTION

An earlier version of this article listed the wrong title for Madison Murphy.

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