This article reports on the findings of a 1995 survey of state offices of tourism on how they address research inquiries. Results indicate that most state offices of tourism have a mechanism in place to deal with tourism research inquiries, yet very few of them track the nature of the inquiry or evaluate their own performance in this area.
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