Culture
Branson Tourists Then and Now
We compared how the typical Branson tourist has changed over a 20-year period.
By Ettie Berneking and Adrienne Donica
May 2018
Our cover feature, “The Changing Face of Branson” explores how business owners and civic leaders in the vacation destination are altering their approaches to keep tourists coming back. But it got us wondering: How have the visitors changed over the years? We asked the Branson/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB for demographic metrics to compare today’s tourists with the ones from 20 years ago.