MormonTimes.com: Tourist magnet

Published: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:05 a.m. MDT
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The most-visited 35 acres in Utah call to tourists year-round, but especially in the summer.

And if there's a tourist who fails to set foot on Temple Square before leaving the state, it isn't because the LDS Church's Visitor Activities Coordinating Committee hasn't tried.

The committee, an arm of the church's Missionary Department, has a broad spectrum of processes all geared toward getting visitors to call on the sites that epitomize the history and ongoing activities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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 - Burke Tangren waves to passengers on the shuttle from Temple Square to the Salt Lake airport Friday. Tangren is in his ninth year as a driver. (Ashley Lowery, Deseret News)
Ashley Lowery, Deseret News

Burke Tangren waves to passengers on the shuttle from Temple Square to the Salt Lake airport Friday. Tangren is in his ninth year as a driver.

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