How important a role should tourism play in future growth in Estes Park?
• Role of the Park and implications of overcrowding there. • How can the needs of a growing tourist base be balanced with the needs • of the local, resident population? 4. How can the Town work in partnership with the Valley and the County to provide new job opportunities without harming the tourist and retirement industries? It is critical to focus on attracting basic industry, industry that brings new dollars into the community. This doesn’t mean industries that produce goods – agriculture, manufacturing and mining. In fact, the Town’s current basic industries, tourism and retirees, are both in the service sector. The secondary jobs, those that recirculate the new dollars, will follow. However, there are certain infrastructure jobs that do not qualify as basic industry but are critical to attracting basic industry – business services, for example – that are an appropriate focus of economic development activities. Schools and health care are other examples. Expanded job opportunities
