Because of the harsh icy weather that befell our Smoky Mountain region over the recent winter months, I was concerned that business revenues might have been negatively impacted. While we don’t know yet about February or March, January’s numbers were in deed EXCELLENT as shown by this Gross Receipts Tax summary from the city of Gatlinburg:
I still have some concern about just how strong February and March will come in but based on the nearly 13% overall year to year increase we certainly are off to a very strong start in 2015.