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Maine Tourism Association

Tony Cameron, Chief Executive Officer  of Maine Tourism Association speaks to matt about upcoming tourism in Maine. Tourism and  hospitality groups  are asking for $800 million to save Maine’s industry.  Trade groups representing Maine’s hospitality and tourism businesses on Friday pitched an $800 million state bailout plan for an industry that they said is on the verge of collapse. The Maine hospitality, tourism and retail recovery plan would use more than half the $1.25 billion in federal money allocated to the state to pay for expenses related to the coronavirus pandemic.

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