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SC Tourism Grows … But Not By Double Digits

South Carolina’s tourism economy posted a modest rebound in 2012 – but for the second year in a row it failed to live up to promises made by S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s administration. The Palmetto State’s revenue per available room – or RevPAR (the key industry metric) – grew from…

South Carolina’s tourism economy posted a modest rebound in 2012 – but for the second year in a row it failed to live up to promises made by S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s administration.

The Palmetto State’s revenue per available room – or RevPAR (the key industry metric) – grew from $47.75 to $50.99 in 2012. That’s a 6.8 percent increase – which was more than double the state’s modest 3.2 percent increase in occupancy rates.

Nationally, RevPAR increased from $61.02 to $65.17 – also a 6.8 percent climb.

South Carolina’s performance was disappointing on a couple of fronts.

First it clearly failed to meet the standard set forth by tourism czar Duane Parrish – who has now missed the mark in both of his two years on the job as director of the S.C. Parks Recreation and Tourism department (SCPRT). In fact Parrish’s agency – which we maintain shouldn’t even exist – received a big bump in funding in the previous year’s budget for “destination specific marketing.”

Obviously those efforts didn’t pan out as well as expected …

The year-end numbers are also disappointing given the blazing progress the state was making over the late summer months (posting RevPAR numbers nearly twice the national average).

That’s further proof that when times are good (or marginally better) people are going to go to the beach whether government spends money marketing to them or not.

Anyway, to take a look at the numbers for yourself click on the link below …

FINAL 2012 LODGING REPORT

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48 comments

BigT March 12, 2013 at 2:52 pm

FITS traffic slips..and it IS by double Digits…Nikki’s kicking FITS’ @$$ yet AGAIN…LMAO..
Looks like the number of comments on FITS is down considerably.
I’d have to believe fewer comments means fewer people are reading. And a majority of the ones who are reading (commenting) are liberals..not the desirable hit advertisers like… they can be gotten in any pop culture marketing ploy.
And they are not Sanford voters…and they’d vote for Mace regardless of this site…
Other than me (the true watchman) You are not drawing the desirable demograhic who actually WORKS and has money to BUY..
Liberals may spend on porn, alcohol, abortions and dope..but i don’t see that being adverstised on here…

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shifty henry March 12, 2013 at 3:22 pm

The answer to the puzzler (posted in the Nancy Mace article) is —-
BigTroubadour slept with the King —- it’s a fairy tale!

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Buz Martin March 12, 2013 at 4:54 pm

Cross-posting a punchline. Excellent!

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shifty henry March 12, 2013 at 6:24 pm

Each time I pull up Fitsnews I get the message “3 people have unfriended you” which means BigT has used his allotment. Even when I agree with one of his comments or compliment him he reacts the same way by accusing me of being a liberal and so forth. BigT is so dumb and clueless he doesn’t get the joke. As long as he keeps that up I’ll keep needling him until his ass bleeds red, white, and blue.

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Thomas March 12, 2013 at 4:05 pm

LOL

Why not focus on General Assembly happenings from January to Sine Die and County Council happenings as well for your story material. Seems that would bring traffic from all around the state. Better than sitcom tv, for sure.

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Buz Martin March 12, 2013 at 4:53 pm

True watchman, huh? Are you the giant bald blue fucker with the blank eyes, the insectoid one, the whorish but hot chick, or … ? Wait, I know you’re not a chick, even a whorish one.

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Please March 13, 2013 at 11:50 pm

What is it that you do for a living again, Bigums?

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BigT March 12, 2013 at 2:52 pm

FITS traffic slips..and it IS by double Digits…Nikki’s kicking FITS’ @$$ yet AGAIN…LMAO..
Looks like the number of comments on FITS is down considerably.
I’d have to believe fewer comments means fewer people are reading. And a majority of the ones who are reading (commenting) are liberals..not the desirable hit advertisers like… they can be gotten in any pop culture marketing ploy.
And they are not Sanford voters…and they’d vote for Mace regardless of this site…
Other than me (the true watchman) You are not drawing the desirable demograhic who actually WORKS and has money to BUY..
Liberals may spend on porn, alcohol, abortions and dope..but i don’t see that being adverstised on here…

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shifty henry March 12, 2013 at 3:22 pm

The answer to the puzzler (posted in the Nancy Mace article) is —-
BigTroubadour slept with the King —- it’s a fairy tale!

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Boz Martin March 12, 2013 at 4:54 pm

Cross-posting a punchline. Excellent!

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shifty henry March 12, 2013 at 6:24 pm

Each time I pull up Fitsnews I get the message “3 people have unfriended you” which means BigT has used his allotment. Even when I agree with one of his comments or compliment him he reacts the same way by accusing me of being a liberal and so forth. BigT is so dumb and clueless he doesn’t get the joke. As long as he keeps that up I’ll keep needling him until his ass bleeds red, white, and blue.

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Thomas March 12, 2013 at 4:05 pm

LOL

Why not focus on General Assembly happenings from January to Sine Die and County Council happenings as well for your story material. Seems that would bring traffic from all around the state. Better than sitcom tv, for sure.

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Boz Martin March 12, 2013 at 4:53 pm

True watchman, huh? Are you the giant bald blue fucker with the blank eyes, the insectoid one, the whorish but hot chick, or … ? Wait, I know you’re not a chick, even a whorish one.

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Please March 13, 2013 at 11:50 pm

What is it that you do for a living again, Bigums?

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semi March 12, 2013 at 2:57 pm

I wonder how much influence the standalone Myrtle Beach advertising money added to the percent increase?

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inletman March 12, 2013 at 5:07 pm

I wonder how much of that money actually went to tourism.

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Buz Martin March 12, 2013 at 7:02 pm

MEGA SHITLOADS of the money has gone to 3 years’ worth of incessant, mind-numbing local radio advertising, full of abject lies and faked statistics from entities owned by the MB-Mafia controlling Brittains, Chapmans, etc., and one even featuring a maven of the Chapman family claiming to be a “small business owner.” All intended to convince voters here that “Yeah, it’s working!” Smaller shitloads have gone to advertising in California, trying to convince people there that they need to fly here for vacations, instead of, say, going to Hawaii or down to Cancun, or maybe taking a little road trip to their own ample stretches of sand and surf. Another sizable shitload has been dumped on some shady undefined “advertising” business owned by a former chamber functionary that nobody knows what the hell it really is, but which shows in Google Map searches as a storage facility in Myrtle Beach – and when its toll-free number is called a housewife in Charleston answers the phone with children yelling and dogs barking in the background along with the sound of soap operas, then immediate hangs up when you ask if this is the party to whom you are speaking.

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Buz Martin March 12, 2013 at 7:14 pm

I am not making this shit up.

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semi March 12, 2013 at 2:57 pm

I wonder how much influence the standalone Myrtle Beach advertising money added to the percent increase?

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inletman March 12, 2013 at 5:07 pm

I wonder how much of that money actually went to tourism.

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Boz Martin March 12, 2013 at 7:02 pm

MEGA SHITLOADS of the money has gone to 3 years’ worth of incessant, mind-numbing local radio advertising, full of abject lies and faked statistics from entities owned by the MB-Mafia controlling Brittains, Chapmans, etc., and one even featuring a maven of the Chapman family claiming to be a “small business owner.” All intended to convince voters here that “Yeah, it’s working!” Smaller shitloads have gone to advertising in California, trying to convince people there that they need to fly here for vacations, instead of, say, going to Hawaii or down to Cancun, or maybe taking a little road trip to their own ample stretches of sand and surf. Another sizable shitload has been dumped on some shady undefined “advertising” business owned by a former chamber functionary that nobody knows what the hell it really is, but which shows in Google Map searches as a storage facility in Myrtle Beach – and when its toll-free number is called a housewife in Charleston answers the phone with children yelling and dogs barking in the background along with the sound of soap operas, then immediate hangs up when you ask if this is the party to whom you are speaking.

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Boz Martin March 12, 2013 at 7:14 pm

I am not making this shit up.

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Smirks March 12, 2013 at 3:12 pm

Hell, “average” is better than what we usually get.

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southmauldin March 12, 2013 at 3:33 pm

No kidding. BTW, how many more people can they fit on Myrtle Beach? That place is already a sewer.

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Smirks March 12, 2013 at 3:12 pm

Hell, “average” is better than what we usually get.

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southmauldin March 12, 2013 at 3:33 pm

No kidding. BTW, how many more people can they fit on Myrtle Beach? That place is already a sewer.

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coolhandluke March 12, 2013 at 3:54 pm

FITS, Slick Willie, you keep hammering on (not really, you never did get it, did you?) our beautiful, hot lady governess Nikki Halley for no good reasons. Did you think just a bit before you wrote this shitty piece of drivel that for the last few years the fucking economy has bottomed out for most folks (except those who are slopping at the Obama’s trough) at the expense of those who labor away each daywork. If so much money did not have to go the liberal lazy, non-workers, SC’s tourist industry might be flourishing. Is this another slow day for you Slick Willie?

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Buz Martin March 12, 2013 at 4:58 pm

BS. That’s the same drivvel the Myrtle Beach Mafia and their shills spout all the time. It doesn’t wash. If that were true, MB would not be so far behind comparable east coast and gulf coast resorts in recovery. The machine here FUCKED UP with their selective tourism, and we have yet to recovery, despite the obscene amounts of ill-gotten tax money they have thrown at the promotion. MB is a big part of SC tourism. Your spring-loaded, ill-informed response is just partisan, ideological dog shit.

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coolhandluke March 12, 2013 at 3:54 pm

FITS, Slick Willie, you keep hammering on (not really, you never did get it, did you?) our beautiful, hot lady governess Nikki Halley for no good reasons. Did you think just a bit before you wrote this shitty piece of drivel that for the last few years the fucking economy has bottomed out for most folks (except those who are slopping at the Obama’s trough) at the expense of those who labor away each daywork. If so much money did not have to go the liberal lazy, non-workers, SC’s tourist industry might be flourishing. Is this another slow day for you Slick Willie?

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Boz Martin March 12, 2013 at 4:58 pm

BS. That’s the same drivvel the Myrtle Beach Mafia and their shills spout all the time. It doesn’t wash. If that were true, MB would not be so far behind comparable east coast and gulf coast resorts in recovery. The machine here FUCKED UP with their selective tourism, and we have yet to recovery, despite the obscene amounts of ill-gotten tax money they have thrown at the promotion. MB is a big part of SC tourism. Your spring-loaded, ill-informed response is just partisan, ideological dog shit.

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Thomas March 12, 2013 at 3:59 pm

To the Haley Administration: Get your ducks in a row for devastating coastal destruction by one or several monster hurricanes. Get evacuation routes and procedures optimized top to bottom, NOW. Kick some ass and get all coastal counties up to fully trained and coordinated levels. Get supplies and re-location centers identified NOW. Get clean up logistics figured out NOW. Get that Emergency Center hopping busy NOW coordinating LE and State, National Guard on “DEFCON 5” NOW. Leave no stone unturned. Prepare NOW for massive destruction of infrastructure, utilities, homes and businesses. Mandate and enforce new rights to rebuild further away from water lines. If Sandy and Winter Storms L to S are any indication, expect no less than 4 storms to hit our coast. The pay-off? Save lives and get re-elected. Get Busy NOW.

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inletman March 12, 2013 at 5:09 pm

If you can work it out that home will be the new ocean front I’d greatly appreciate it. Certainly my wind/hail insurance can’t increase any higher than it currently is.

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Thomas March 12, 2013 at 3:59 pm

To the Haley Administration: Get your ducks in a row for devastating coastal destruction by one or several monster hurricanes. Get evacuation routes and procedures optimized top to bottom, NOW. Kick some ass and get all coastal counties up to fully trained and coordinated levels. Get supplies and re-location centers identified NOW. Get clean up logistics figured out NOW. Get that Emergency Center hopping busy NOW coordinating LE and State, National Guard on “DEFCON 5” NOW. Leave no stone unturned. Prepare NOW for massive destruction of infrastructure, utilities, homes and businesses. Mandate and enforce new rights to rebuild further away from water lines. If Sandy and Winter Storms L to S are any indication, expect no less than 4 storms to hit our coast. The pay-off? Save lives and get re-elected. Get Busy NOW.

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inletman March 12, 2013 at 5:09 pm

If you can work it out that home will be the new ocean front I’d greatly appreciate it. Certainly my wind/hail insurance can’t increase any higher than it currently is.

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jimlewisowb March 12, 2013 at 4:29 pm

Haven’t thought this one all the way through but since most everything else done in this fucked up State is never thought all the way through what the fuck, no foul/no harm.

The Governor’s Office should take steps via Executive Order to seize physical control of all Boeing Dreamliners. Hell we have already paid for them.

Don’t worry about that burning batteries problem, just mount all the batteries out on the wings and if they catch fire, the wind will put the fires out

Anoint/Knight Reynolds Williams as GOD/CEO of South Carolina Airlines, LLC. That little weasel bastard can squeeze blood out of a rock

Turn the Myrtle Beach Airport into an International Hub for flights restricted to the USSR, its former member countries and to any country where it is possible for one’s piss to freeze before it hit’s the damn ground

Fly free anyone who boards directly back to Myrtle Beach for a three week+½ day stay

At the end of the three weeks+½ day, offer to fly them back home for $50,000 a head

If they cannot come up with the money, put some on used South Carolina School Buses and transport them to Amick’s Farms to process chickens; send some down to Charleston to build by hand that fucking flyover that nobody wants; send some down to Five Points to bust the crap out of anyone, regardless of party affiliation, wearing a hoodie, pants around their asshole, rings in their lips or says whassup.

I’m sure there any other enterprises in the State that could use free labor but right now can’t think of any

Oh have SLED track down the true identity of the nampy pampy who posts as BigT and make him Czar of Marketing with an unlimited budget so he can prove to the world that he has the biggest balls of all, not the Queen of England

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jimlewisowb March 12, 2013 at 4:29 pm

Haven’t thought this one all the way through but since most everything else done in this fucked up State is never thought all the way through what the fuck, no foul/no harm.

The Governor’s Office should take steps via Executive Order to seize physical control of all Boeing Dreamliners. Hell we have already paid for them.

Don’t worry about that burning batteries problem, just mount all the batteries out on the wings and if they catch fire, the wind will put the fires out

Anoint/Knight Reynolds Williams as GOD/CEO of South Carolina Airlines, LLC. That little weasel bastard can squeeze blood out of a rock

Turn the Myrtle Beach Airport into an International Hub for flights restricted to the USSR, its former member countries and to any country where it is possible for one’s piss to freeze before it hit’s the damn ground

Fly free anyone who boards directly back to Myrtle Beach for a three week+½ day stay

At the end of the three weeks+½ day, offer to fly them back home for $50,000 a head

If they cannot come up with the money, put some on used South Carolina School Buses and transport them to Amick’s Farms to process chickens; send some down to Charleston to build by hand that fucking flyover that nobody wants; send some down to Five Points to bust the crap out of anyone, regardless of party affiliation, wearing a hoodie, pants around their asshole, rings in their lips or says whassup.

I’m sure there any other enterprises in the State that could use free labor but right now can’t think of any

Oh have SLED track down the true identity of the nampy pampy who posts as BigT and make him Czar of Marketing with an unlimited budget so he can prove to the world that he has the biggest balls of all, not the Queen of England

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Buz Martin March 12, 2013 at 4:46 pm

Now Sic, THAT is how to draw attention to a story about the beach. But you always get all serious and dignified with the pix you put up for the Coastal Kickback stories. PLEASE DO PICS LIKE THIS on those stories from now on. Hits for FITS. If need be, loan me a good camera, and I will go and take TONS of hot bikinied buttshots like that for ya.

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shifty henry March 12, 2013 at 6:57 pm

The best bikini is like barbed wire – it protects the property without obstructing the view.

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Booty Licker March 13, 2013 at 7:43 pm

It would still make me want to eat some ass!

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stickler March 12, 2013 at 10:25 pm

That pic above is not local, unless there is some restricted area that requires wrist-tags.

Oh, he says. There are wrist-tags in that picture?

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Boz Martin March 12, 2013 at 4:46 pm

Now Sic, THAT is how to draw attention to a story about the beach. But you always get all serious and dignified with the pix you put up for the Coastal Kickback stories. PLEASE DO PICS LIKE THIS on those stories from now on. Hits for FITS. If need be, loan me a good camera, and I will go and take TONS of hot bikinied buttshots like that for ya.

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shifty henry March 12, 2013 at 6:57 pm

The best bikini is like barbed wire – it protects the property without obstructing the view.

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Booty Licker March 13, 2013 at 7:43 pm

It would still make me want to eat some ass!

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tomstickler March 12, 2013 at 10:25 pm

That pic above is not local, unless there is some restricted area that requires wrist-tags.

Oh, he says. There are wrist-tags in that picture?

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9" March 12, 2013 at 8:39 pm

get to that booty before the incipient cellulite turns to cottage cheese

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9" March 12, 2013 at 8:39 pm

get to that booty before the incipient cellulite turns to cottage cheese

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True Grit March 13, 2013 at 2:16 am

Implied on each of these bikinis is the message, “Let’s go to your motel room or mine.”

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True Grit March 13, 2013 at 2:16 am

Implied on each of these bikinis is the message, “Let’s go to your motel room or mine.”

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