CONWAY — Ready or not, here comes summer ’21. And with COVID-19 cases dropping and vaccinations increasing, tourism officials are predicting a return to some semblance to normalcy, as attractions reopen and events return.
In fact, the Division of Travel and Tourism Development expecting the summer to rebound to pre-pandemic, 2019 levels with nearly 3.5 million visitors expected to come to New Hampshire this summer, spending some $1.8 billion.
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