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Asheville to tourists: Come back! We have gas now!

Jason Sandford September 25, 2008

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

Look for Asheville tourism officials to put on the full-court press now to get the word out to tourists that it’s safe to drive your giant recreational vehicle or your gas-guzzling SUV into the mountains because we have gas.

The tourism industry is on the verge of taking a beating at the very start of leaf-peeping season, but I know the local tourism folks, and they’re not going to take this. Watch for a flurry of press releases, a barrage of television interviews, a crapload of e-mail to bloggers, all telling us that Asheville is a great place to visit!

Here’s what tourism officials should do: call for a “surge.” A surge of tourists. A surge of lost-looking octogenarians. A surge of free-spending Floridians.

We need a surge! If it worked for John McCain, it can work for Asheville!

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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3 Comments

Amber S September 25, 2008

Yeah I have yet to pass a station that I can wait at without running out of gas before filling up.

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Bill September 25, 2008

someone slip some mescaline in your cornflakes, ash?

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Zipperhead September 25, 2008

Have you been out of your house today or did the GOP tell you to write this?

LOL

If this is true, could you get me some gas. I up on the PKWY near an big tree that sitting next to a rock with a mark on it.

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