“2022 was the biggest tourism year ever in West Virginia”
What PolitiFact found
Spending by travelers to West Virginia set a record in 2022. However, tourism-supported jobs fell to a level unseen since 2007, and tax revenue from tourism fell slightly from 2021 levels.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jim Justice (Governor of West Virginia) made this claim around 13 September 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 October 2023, 41 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Jim Justice has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 3 true.
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