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Outdoor Recreation & Tourism Business Gap Assessments
Anchor Area Updates
Beginning January 2018 Friends of SWVA will be conducting Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
Business Gap Assessments throughout the 19 county region. These assessments will focus on an
evaluation report of the current outdoor recreation industry and supporting business inventor and
needs including primary outdoor recreation assets, primary outdoor recreation destination
businesses, secondary non-destination tourism/ hospitality support businesses and tertiary
non-tourism/hospitality support businesses.
Project Start Date: January 2018
Friends of Southwest Virginia is conducting 8 anchor area updates. These updates are open to the
public and provide a space for community members to hear about the ongoing and recently
completed work throughout the region. To date we have completed the High Knob S’mores and More
and Damascus Brews and News updates.
Beginning 2018, we will kick off the New River Regional Update