(Salt Lake City, UT)  –  More and more people are coming to visit Utah.  The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah reported good news for the state’s tourism industry yesterday.  Total visitation was up about 12 percent from 2011 to 2015 with over eight-billion dollars spent by visitors over that same period.  The Deseret News reports that netted the state more than a billion dollars in tax revenue over that time. Â