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Published on: 5/30/2004
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Fitzgerald and Jennifer Fisher, director of sales at the Kandahar Lodge on Big Mountain, both said they are "cautiously optimistic" about the summer tourism business.
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Fisher said Kandahar's reservations so far are slightly behind last year's count, although she spent all of Thursday morning booking guests.
She has heard some speculation that the memory of last year's fires is causing people to look elsewhere for vacation plans.For example, she said a cycling company that partners with the Kandahar is seeing slower bookings, and the fires have been offered as a scapegoat.
But she's not buying it.
No one has mentioned wildfires when asking for reservations, she said, and even if they're aware of them, "they don't have the same point of view that we do."
If the fires were dominating news coverage the way they were last year, she said, that would be a different story: "It really made the phones stop ringing when the fires were in the news."
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