Useful for treating tourism as knowledge translation and place-making rather than as an afterthought to production.
Peggy Noe Stevens helped turn distillery visits into structured tours, tastings, hospitality programs, and the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, making visitor experience a major channel for education, branding, and regional economic activity.
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Part One — Peggy Noe Stevens
Fresh full supplied-ebook reading and image audit September29. PDF sheets 78–79. PDF78–79 supports tourism as curated interpretation. Visitor totals must distinguish visits from unique persons; historical totals and growth assertions are not current2026 statistics.
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September 29 fresh reading audit
Peggy Noe Stevens helped turn distillery visits into structured tours, tastings, hospitality programs, and the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, making visitor experience a major channel for education, branding, and regional economic activity.
Locator: PDF sheets 78–79. These are supplied ebook PDF sheet numbers, not hardcover pagination.
PDF78–79 supports tourism as curated interpretation. Visitor totals must distinguish visits from unique persons; historical totals and growth assertions are not current2026 statistics.
Full-source synthesis — Bourbon: The Story of Kentucky Whiskey