IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS §4600.1. Legislative findings The legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) There is a direct correlation between the amount of funds spent on destination-based marketing, sales, and promotion of a locality and an increase in the number of conventions, meetings, visitors, occupancy of lodging businesses, retail sales of food, beverages, and other items, admissions to cultural and other entertainment venues, collections of related state and local sales and use taxes, job creation, and a resulting general economic vitality of the traveler economy and related businesses in the locality. (2) It is in the state's public interest, and vital to the welfare of the state's economy, to facilitate and encourage cooperating public-private partnerships for the enhancement and expansion of the business economy and to provide for increased business activity, tourism, economic development, and job creation in municipalities and parishes in the state of Louisiana.
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