Posted on 03/04/2020 11:42:23 AM PST by NobleFree
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Tourism season 2020 is fast approaching — Visit Rapid City already has plans to help make this season a strong one.
Last year with the national cap on immigrant visas in the H1B [sic] program, the tourism industry which is heavily reliant on the foreign workers, struggled to find employees.
Visit Rapid City has continued to work with the state’s congressional delegation to encourage President Trump to allow more workers in this year.
“We need to do better, we need to have more able to come here,” Julie Jensen said. “These people that are coming across the country or across the world are not displacing american workers
[OF COURSE THEY ARE. If tourism workers can come from another country, they could be coming from another state instead. - NobleFree]
at least not in the black hills. These workers are vital to our visitor industry.”
Jensen also says the weather is an indicator for the future of this year’s season.
“Weather matters,” Jensen said. “Especially in today’s age. People are predicting weather is quite a ways out. We want, also, where our markets are, our major markets are, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas; if they’re having good weather that gives them the opportunity to come spend some of their good, hard-earned money in the Black Hills of South Dakota.”
Visit Rapid City also hired a new ad agency and will be unveiling their new promotional campaigns soon.
H1B is for skilled professionals like IT specialists and engineers. H2B is for kids brought in to work as hotel maids and lifeguards at seasonal resorts.
Another Journ-O-List who doesn’t know what he’s talking about and too lazy to look it up.
Well, I liked Firehouse Brewing.
But it’s a bit far out of the way from Minneapolis.
A question for FReepers who remember the 1940s: Wasn’t it “Visit Rapid City” that was painted on the side of barns along the highway?
Cheap labor at any cost is like a drug to “small ( minded) business”.
- NobleFree
Worth repeating.
It may not be so crowded, if tourists stay home because of the virus.
Wall Drug
Disregarding the discussion about immigrant workers, Rapid City area makes for a wonderful vacation. We went a few years ago in early September. We like to take trips after schools are back in session. We really enjoyed it. A charter bus tour through several of the venues was also a great way to enjoy the scenery, and was very pleasant.
Mount Rushmore is amazing and humbling. We also went to Badlands National Park, among other area sites.
Rapid City is great vacation spot.
Mountains, scenic rock structures, caves, buffalo, history, horseback riding, badlands. and that president sculpture thingy.
Got my Jackalope at Wall Drug. Stationed at Ellsworth in the early 80’s.
I couldn’t believe the “diversity” when I was at Custer State Park last year.
I guess the locals are fully employed or don’t want to work there.
I took my kids to Wall Drug about 8 years ago. They had a blast.
Be sure to see The National Jackelope Reserve at Rapid City!
Rock City, a tourist attraction in Lookout Mountain, very near the Tennessee/Georgia border.
Seriously. With what you hear about poverty on Indian reservations you’d think those folks would be lined-up five deep to take these jobs.
Born and raised in Rapid City, left there in 1982. I miss Taco Johns and.... well that’s all.
It used to be a conservative town, not so much anymore.
The locals set the market wage - but cheap employers get imported labor welfare instead of paying market wage.
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