PORT ANGELES – Port Angeles had another record-setting year for tourism last year.

According to the marketing company hired by the city to promote visits here, the area saw a new record of $731,000 collected in lodging taxes. That’s the tax collected on overnight stays at local hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts located inside the city limits.

It marks a third straight years of increased numbers in that category. That’s something city councilmember Cherie Kidd said  the city wanted when it hired Vertigo Marketing to pitch the city to tourists.

Vertigo says the city set a single-month record for lodging tax collection last August with $144,000.

Vertigo says they were able to place 295,000,000 marketing impressions to the public last year. Those are things like social media posts and print advertising.

Vertigo was hired in 2016 after the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce changed its focus and dropped the contract for marketing the city to instead focus on local business development.