Rick Harper on Jobs Friday, Foo Foo Festival
- November 7, 2014
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / economy
In WUWF's weekly economic report, Dr. Rick Harper talks up the impact of Foo Foo Festival.
The 12-day arts and culture umbrella festival links events such as the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival and Blue Angels Airshow, with new events such as the Pop Expo and Back on the Blocks block party in historic Belmont-DeVilliers to promote Pensacola's off-season to cultural tourists.
“It’s the thing we’ve been talking about for so long, which is the need to offer enough events and enough to do so that we have an opportunity to market the whole package and hopefully draw people who might want to spend a long weekend here, who might even want to spend a whole week here,” says Harper.Read the story, or listen to the podcast version, here.
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