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Send Clockwise from top left: Steve Arrison of Visit Hot Springs, Gretchen Hall of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, Karen Trevino of the North Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau and Molly Rawn of Experience Fayetteville. So how big was the tourism rebound as Arkansas scaled back its COVID-19 restrictions? In cities that collect advertising and promotion taxes for tourism on hotel and restaurant receipts, the numbers talk. “We’ve set records for three months in a row, and March was our best month ever for tax collectio...

Lake Hamilton gets 2022 BFL All-American Thursday, June 3, 2021    Major League Fishing announced today that the 39th annual BFL All-American will be held on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Ark. in 2022. The tournament, scheduled for June 2-4, will showcase some of the nation’s best weekend anglers and award the winner up to $120,000 cash. The three-day, no-entry-fee-championship hosted by the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism and Visit Hot Springs is the sixth All-American to be held in Hot Springs – a record for the most times a city has hosted the event. It will provide an ...

Hot Springs tourism sales hit record following 'miserable' pandemic year Hot Springs, one of the state's busiest tourism cities got hit hard with the pandemic, but one of the biggest moneymakers— the convention center— is bouncing back. Author: Jordan Howington Updated: 5:52 PM CDT May 18, 2021 HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Hot Springs, one of the state's busiest tourism cities got hit hard with the pandemic, but one of the biggest moneymakers— the convention center— is bouncing back. "The phone calls are starting to pick up,” said Steve Arrison, CEO of Visit...

Southern Airways Express flies to El Dorado, Hot Springs and Harrison. Southern Airways Express announced Tuesday that it has added Friday and Sunday flights connecting the El Dorado, Harrison and Hot Springs airports, as well as making Memphis a connecting hub for the Hot Springs airport in June. The El Dorado and Harrison airports already have Memphis service.  Southern has held the Essential Air Service contracts for those airports in Arkansas since 2016. The EAS is a federal program that subsidizes smaller carriers so they can profitably offer a minimal lev...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 23rd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 15 billion cubic feet to 1,898 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 302 billion cubic feet, or 13.7% below the 2,200 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 23rd of last year, and 40 billion cubic feet, or 2.1% below the five-year average of 1,938 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 23rd of April in recent years....the 15 billion cubic feet that were added t...