In any case, tourism-related businesses here are desperately trying to fight off the perception that visitors need to bring scuba gear.

Without them, he said, "all tourism-related businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and transportation services would be badly hit."

And despite the influx of visitors, some other tourism-related businesses say the casinos have siphoned off their customers.

It may be too early to tell whether restaurants, bars and other tourism-related businesses are in full recovery.

Many locals are involved in tourism-related business.

The County Executive said the conference would afford the first official opportunity for tourism-related businesses to come together.

Total cost to tourism-related businesses is expected to exceed $12 million.

An additional 1.5% sales tax is added during the summer season on sales occurring in tourism-related businesses and dedicated to the state's office of tourism.

It is the home of a number of marinas, state parks and tourism-related businesses.

Plastic was the big industry here at one time, but now restaurants, bars and other tourism-related businesses are the main employers.