Hochul Holds Summer Tourism Roundtable in Mayville

Tourism numbers are up in Chautauqua County, and state officials believe that tying the area into tourism in the Buffalo area has contributed to that. Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul hosted a Summer Tourism Roundtable this week in Mayville to discuss Governor Andrew Cuomo's "I Love New York" initiative. Hochul also wanted to hear what's been successful here. She says local tourism was up 5% last year, which was the biggest jump outside of New York City. Hochul says she's familiar with some of the local attractions...

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Hochul adds they've been trying to draw at least some of the 15 million visitors to New York City upstate, and she says Chautauqua County has done a lot to draw some of them. She says Lake Erie, Chautauqua Lake, and Chautauqua Institution are obviously major attractions. But Hochul says promoting the state's diverse destinations has helped...

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Hochul adds that the governor's tourism office wants others, like the proposed National Comedy Center in Jamestown, to also be part of that. The Summer Tourism Rountable was held at Webb's Year-round Resort in Mayville.