Although it remained the poorest country in the EU, exports and tourism boosted the economy, and austerity measures introduced by the Borisov administration encouraged foreign investors and analysts.
The trend toward historical and educational tourism boosted customers, as did its location just off the Blue Ridge Parkway and Interstates 40 and 26.
Provincial officials looking for a tourism boost will have to steer carefully through politically sensitive waters.
The re-emergence of South Australia's mysterious Marree Man has been hailed as a tourism boost for the state's far north.
An estimate from a University of Hawaii researcher says the state will get a $217 million tourism boost over the next three years as a result of gay marriage.
Ten years ago, the region felt a substantial tourism boost following the release of Calendar Girls, which was shot around Kettlewell and made £63m worldwide.
The British government hired bevies of accountants to claim that the 2012 Games would make a profit, "earn Britain £13bn in extra trade" and "deliver a tourism boost".
But hopes of a tourism boost have turned sour after the Kent community discovered that Southcliffe is actually the harrowing account of a loner who embarks upon a killing spree after being persecuted by local townsfolk.
In a twist of fate, the action – thought to have spelt the end for Elías García Martínez artwork – has inadvertently provided a massive tourism boost for the 5,000-strong 5,000-strong even inspired a comic opera.
"The biggest concern the landowners have expressed is not about the beavers, but about the people that come with the beavers – the interest we've had and the tourism boost on the river Otter have been extraordinary".
Environmentalists feared it would not recover, but the reef has grown by 20% and is now poised to give the UAE an unexpected tourism boost.
