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Friday, April 12, 2019

Relaxing Pet Restrictions Could Have Tourism Impact

OCEAN CITY — Hoping to tap into a growing market, resort tourism officials this week discussed expanding when pets are allowed on the beach and Boardwalk.

Currently, pets are only allowed on the beach and Boardwalk between Oct. 1 and April 30. However, a popular growing trend is for vacationers to bring their favorite four-legged friends with them on vacation.

During a Tourism Commission meeting on Monday, Ocean City Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association (OCHMRA) Executive Director Susan Jones pointed out more resort lodging establishments are becoming pet-friendly in response to the growing trend.

“Seeing how we have so many new hotel rooms, we need to explore how we’re going to fill them,” she said. “Pet travel is becoming increasingly popular. We used to have four members allowing pets and now we have 20. It’s definitely a growing market.”

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Animals are not meant to be treated the same as a human They have many attributes buy staying in a hotel room all day while master is out and about is not good.

Anonymous said...

Joe
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Anonymous said...

Also not good for future hotel guests with allergies.

Anonymous said...

Pets are not a good idea. They bark at different times. You go away on vacation to just relax not have to listen to barking dogs. It's bad enough to have to listen to them bark while trying to enjoy the beach. Hope the council is not weak and stupid and cave on this.

Anonymous said...

Don’t Kid yourself. They are simply eying up a new dog tax.

Anonymous said...

Just who is going to enforce it. Get real.

Anonymous said...

Let the law suits began

Anonymous said...

They are talking about allowing them to stay in hotels because now a days most are already pet friendly. They are talking about relaxing some of the laws pertaining to no dogs on the boardwalk or beach during the season.

Anonymous said...

Pets are better behaved than then piglet off spring of most.

Should be fun said...

Homies with their PIT BULLS

Bob said...

Going to be fun stepping in dog crap on the boardwalk and beach. I would rather be seeing topless women they should relax the law on that!