After vocal opposition from the farming and tourism groups, the Coalition announced a review of the tax during the election campaign.
Separately, a handful of Michigan tourism groups last week rolled out "Stop the Carp Now," an online and radio ad campaign.
He also warned that the continuing political crisis was frightening away tourists and tarnishing the country's image as the "Land of Smiles," as tourism groups had noted sharp declines in the number of visitors and hotel occupancy.
Many institutions have small marketing budgets, he said, and, loath to try anything different, do only what they have done for years, like teaming up with tourism groups and hotels to create visitor packages.
Neither the British Tourist Authority nor local Channel Islands tourism groups know of any American tour packages to this rocky archipelago between Britain and France that includes Jersey and Guernsey Islands.
And in four states – Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia – local nonprofits or tourism groups offer tours at old state penitentiaries, whose dark halls become haunted attractions in the fall.
