Quiz 8

Question 1

Grand Canyon Railroad’s Goals

Answer 1

Resurrecting the railway as a tourist railroad; drawing tourists to Williams for profit in a rails-to-rails package

Question 2

Downtown merchants goals

Answer 2

Get profits into their own pockets

Question 3

Chamber of commerce goals

Answer 3

Competing to direct Williams’ tourism policy

Question 4

City government goals

Answer 4

1) Accommodate to many of the decisions made by the railway and 2) develop a coherent strategy to take advantage of tourism because it cannot form effective coalitions with others in the community

Question 5

What are BBB Taxes?

Answer 5

the Bed, Board and Booze tax

Question 6

Key struggle for downtown merchants?

Answer 6

Tourists are on a train or at GC during the day and so they hardly walk around the downtown area- tourists taking the train don’t come downtown

Question 7

What is boomtown tourism/How is william’s an example/how have residents responded?

Answer 7

Community acceptance of tourism activity starts off low because of the initial social disruption caused by the appearance of a large-scale tourism operation; the community adapts to the tourism operation’s existence, and through time, residents’ attitudes toward tourism become more positive; In Williams in a short time period . a large corporate tourism operation transformed the town but has not been able to adapt with community attitudes decreasing because it has been a fast growing operation

Question 8

Different themes to promote tourism

Answer 8

1920s themed train stand in 21st century Williams, on Route 66, in front of a black- and-white-checkered 1950s-themed diner, watching 1880s- themed cowboys perform a staged gunfight while a 1860s Civil War band stands ready to play once it is over.