Tourism

The Institute for Tourism and Economic Research at the University of Montana recently completed a study of the eight counties in what is called Glacier Country. Non-resident travel contributed over $250 million dollars to the economy of Missoula County alone.

The Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research is out with its 2012 Economic Review of Montana's travel industry, and it has good news for tourism in Montana.

The first round of the Social Media Tourism Symposium is over and Missoula will undoubtedly move on to the Elite 8 with seven other cities.

A new study by the University of Montana Institute for Tourism and Economic Research shows that non-resident travel supported jobs in every business sector in Montana.

Both Democratic candidate for governor Steve Bullock and Republican challenger Rick Hill will be in Missoula today, October 23, to square off on economic issues.

Senator Max Baucus kicks off a tourism-trade mission to Canada.

The air transports used to drop airborne soldiers behind Utah Beach in 1944 were the C-47 Skytrains.  In this year's commemorative drops, C-130 Hercules will provide the airlift.  Basic and specialized versions of the C-130 perform airlift support, Antarctic ice resupply, aeromedical missions, weather reconnaissance, aerial spray missions, firefighting duties for the U...

Planning an event like the 68th Anniversary of D-Day requires special skills, the kind found in the G-3, or Operations Section of the US Army, Europe.  They're in charge of the multi-national, multi-service exercise to commemorate the start of the invasion of Normandy...

How high would gas prices have to go before you would change your summer travel plans?

One of the most important objectives of the 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day was the La Fière bridge. The bridge itself might look like a small objective, but in June 1944 was one of only two locations where the Merderet river could be crossed by armor...