The number of visitors to the North Olympic Peninsula has dropped in the week since the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
* Airlines are struggling with a decrease in the number of passengers.
* Visitor centers in Port Townsend, Port Angeles and Sequim saw drops in the number of tourists.
* There’s been a decline in visitors to Olympic National Park.
* The Victoria Express passenger ferry ended its summer season two weeks early last Sunday.
* Organizers of last weekend’s Port Townsend Homes Tour said the event drew less than half the people they had anticipated.
About 650 people attended the event, down from more than 1,500 last year, said Liz Gibbler, treasurer for the Jefferson General Hospital Auxiliary, the event’s sponsor.
“We were definitely down,” Gibbler said, adding that people who said they were coming from Pennsylvania, Colorado, Wisconsin and Montana were unable to make it.
“Normally we don’t refund tickets,” she said. “But this year we did.”
