If you are like me, you have read that tourism is either a good local industry or that tourism does not create jobs or pay taxes. I do believe that Marshall/Harrison County needs more jobs paying better salaries. I also believe that you do not have to give up one type of employment in order to gain a different type of employment. Harrison County is large and needs to support multiple types of businesses and industries.

Below are documented FACTS, not opinions, that show the tourism impact on Harrison County. This impact is a result of a minimum – some would say No, effort within Harrison County to create a tourism industry.

Also summarized from two reports on National Wildlife Refuges is the type of impact that the new Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge will create for Harrison County. This positive economic impact comes at no cost to the citizens of Marshall.