Crowds flocked to Tepco Solutions to celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week and hear the numbers on tourism in Baytown.
Anna Yowell, Baytown’s tourism manager, said travel is important because it has a “positive impact on America’s economy in terms of taxes and in Baytown.”
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