‘Summer of Seuss’ drove Pioneer Valley visitors in ’17, say just-released state numbers
ourists, conventioneers and other visitors to Hampden County spent $608 million in 2017, a 6.5 percent increase from the year before, according to figures recently released by the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism and publicized by the Greater Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau. “It was the summer of Seuss,” said Mary Kay Wydra, president of the Visitors Bureau.