Port Clinton Bans Poor Tourists
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If you’re planning a trip to see Lake Erie and the picturesque Lake Erie islands of Port Clinton, Ohio, you may want to bring a few extra bucks. Make that a stack of hundreds.
Port Clinton’s Mayor Hugh Wheeler has proposed a new law that would make it very difficult for travelers on a budget by proposing a 35 Tourist Tax on all visitors.
According to news reports, Wheeler is pushing for a “Pay as you go” tourism strategy.
“It’s kind of a win-win situation for Port Clinton and the Mayor,” Wheeler told reporters earlier this month, as contractors would be rewarded by the city government for bringing infrastructure to the city with “the necessary tax breaks and exemptions, while we reserve money to fix our streets.”
But are tourists without deep pockets losing out? The Mayors proposal comes amid heightened complaints in recent years of an overwhelming influx of Mayflies.
Port Clinton had 141,000 visitors in 2014 up four percent from 2013. By February 2015, while Put-in-Bay visitors had increased by more than 500-percent, according to The Sandusky Register.
That’s more than Port Clinton’s total population.
Tourism accounts for the the majority of Port Clintons tax base at 85-percent but the “damage” to the sudden increase of visitors was proving to be costly, according to some locols. The influx of tourists may lead to the destruction of the dumpy waterworks park, Lake Erie and general overcrowding and wildlife disturbance on the islands.
Amid growing concern, Port Clinton’s government cut the number of charter boats in 2015 by half. Accordingly, “while the numbers went down, the actual tourist spending went up,” said Wheeler.
“Do we want to control growth or do we want growth to control us?” he questioned earlier this year. “It will be irresponsible for me as a leader if this trend continues. I am not only looking at the present but, as a leader, I am looking after tomorrow.”
Now, it appears the Mayor is satisfied with his decision to control the amount of tourists who visit the area.
“It confirms our direction [to attract] less tourists who spend more which equates to more tax dollars,” he said. “We [will] go for quality rather than quantity… to create a goal of high-end, high-value tourism. The Jet Express, Put-in-Bay and Cedar Point ” gets rich off of tourists. Why can’t we?”.
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