Photo: (from left) Jim Daily, Arkansas Parks, Heritage and Tourism director; Rotarian Heather Loftis, KTLO, and Bob Knight, tourism commissioner. Photo: Courtesy Brenda Nelson, MH Rotary PR Chair.
A presentation on the tourism industry in Arkansas was made at Thursday’s meeting of the Mountain Home Rotary Club. Rotarian Heather Loftis of KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot brought a program for the club to include her father, Bob Knight, and Arkansas Parks, Heritage and Tourism Director Jim Daily.
Knight is a co-owner of KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot. He has also served as a tourism commissioner for the last 14 years, after being appointed by three governors.
Daily invited the group to visit the new arkansas.com and complimented the new cityofmountainhome.com website. The former Little Rock mayor also gave praise on Mountain Home’s retail community, tourism industries and the developing downtown entertainment district. He told the crowd as a retirement and relocation center, “It’s still a bargain to live in Mountain Home.”
This wasn’t Daily’s first experience in the Twin Lakes Area. While attending the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, he spent a couple of summers working on Bull Shoals Lake.
During his presentation, Daily explained the aesthetic and monetary value to Arkansas to Parks, Heritage and Tourism. He told the local Rotarians the Arkansas tourism industry is expanding its usual outreach to now include solo travelers and niche tourism. That’s in addition to the visitors coming to hike, ride or drive and enjoy the scenic beauty of The Natural State.
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