In North Carolina, the Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau is run on public money, yet details on how the bureau spends a large part of that cash is kept private.
The bureau has an almost $9 million budget funded by a local lodging tax. Twenty full-time and three part-time workers, including the executive director, draw their pay from that pot of money. That’s a total of $1.7 million in salaries, benefits and bonuses. Continue…
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