County Leaders Talk Tourism

It was an all-star cast of Macon County officials attending the July 29 regular meeting of the Macon County Workforce Investment Network (WIN), presumably there to hear what scheduled Alabama Director of Tourism and Travel Lee Sentell had to say about the county’s tourism potential.

Sentell, though, didn’t show. In his place he sent Francis Smiley, Welcome Center Administrator for the state.

In 2008, Smiley’s been on the roads of Macon County more often than usual as a volunteer helping prepare the area for the grand opening of the new Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. But this visit she had the ears of the top of the county’s political food chain. Her message?

Macon County needs hospitality training.

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