CHAPTER 4-A. JEFFERSON PARISH HOTEL SURCHARGE FOR

TOURISM PROMOTION

§301. Legislative findings

            The legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:

            (1) There is a direct correlation between the amount of funds spent on destination-based marketing, sales and promotion of a locality and an increase in the number of conventions, meetings, visitors, occupancy of hotels, retail sales of food, beverages, and other items, admissions to cultural and other entertainment venues, collections of related state and local sales and use taxes, job creation and a resulting general economic vitality of the traveler economy and related businesses in the locality.

            (2) It is in the state's public interest and vital to the welfare of the state's economy to facilitate and encourage cooperating public-private partnerships for the enhancement and expansion of the traveler economy and to provide for increased hotel occupancy, tourism, economic development and job creation in Jefferson Parish.

            Acts 2015, No. 265, §1.