Show-Me German Town Tourism Winning

Best local travel guide reporting we've seen in quite some time . . . Good enough to bring even more cowtown hipsters in order to ruin the charm of the place . .  . Still, we admire the survival tactic that seems a bit more fun than just building more data center monstrosities . . . Check-it: 

"Like many business owners in the town, he is conscious of the acute reliance on tourism. Many local conversations revolve around the consequences of a tourism downturn. Other towns along the Missouri are objecting to the imposition of data centres, proposed as a means of revival. For Hermann, transforming the town into an attraction has worked."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Keith Duggan's US road trip: A German town on the Missouri weighs its past - and its future

A Rhineland dream transplanted to the Midwest, Hermann offers European architecture, easygoing days and a deep sense of place

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