Tag: Andy Chapman

An Incline Village resident argues that Nevada lawmakers should reject SB420, alleging that more visitor fees and less public accountability created by business improvement districts won’t protect Lake Tahoe.

Tourism drives our economy, but we lack the tools to manage its impacts, says Andy Chapman. The time to act is now with sustainable funding for transit, stewardship, and visitor management.

Various tourism trends played a role in TART Connect’s microtransit services ceasing in Incline Village/Crystal Bay in December. Learn what efforts — including attempted legislation to create business improvement districts in the state — are being sought to fix this.

Tahoe’s next step in its tourism evolution? Shifting focus from catering to visitors to supporting home base. Many of the lessons learned to reach this step came out of working through the Covid-19 pandemic.

The CEOs of the NLTRA and the IVCBVB respond to a My Shot arguing that the agencies don’t increase revenue to small businesses in a meaningful way.