Visitors spent $3.72 billion in the county during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2016, according to a study released Tuesday by the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. That amounts to 44 percent of all tourist dollars spent in the state during that period, a percentage that inched up from 42 percent two years earlier.
Similarly, taxes paid by those visitors climbed robustly to roughly $500 million in FY16, 41 percent of the $1.2 billion in tourism taxes collected overall — enough money to cut the tax bills paid by each Salt Lake County household by $1,285 that year.