Section 172. Powers of the council

The council shall have the following
  powers:
    1. To identify and review tourism-related  issues  and  current  state
  policies  and  programs  which directly or indirectly affect tourism and
  travel in the state and, as appropriate, recommend the adoption of  new,
  or the modification of existing, policies and programs;
    2.  To  advise  the  department  in  its  promotion and development of
  tourism and travel facilities and services in the state;
    3. To advise the department in the development and  implementation  of
  the   state's   tourism  marketing  and  business  development  program,
  including long-range strategies for attracting tourists to the state;
    4.  To  advise  the  department,  the  governor  and  the  legislature
  concerning  recommended  legislation necessary to foster and promote the
  prosperity, expansion and development of  tourism  and  travel  concerns
  within the state;
    5.  To  advise  the  department,  the  governor  and  the  legislature
  concerning existing laws, rules,  regulations  and  practices  of  state
  agencies  which  are  counter-productive  or inimical to the prosperity,
  expansion and development of tourism  and  travel  concerns  within  the
  state;
    6.  To  advise  the  department,  the  governor  and  the  legislature
  concerning  the  development  of  inter-governmental  cooperation  among
  agencies  of  the  federal,  state and local governments and cooperation
  between private industry and government so  as  to  assure  the  optimum
  development of tourism and travel concerns;
    7. To assist the department in obtaining information necessary for the
  development  and  improvement  of  state policies and programs affecting
  tourism and travel industries in the state; and
    8. To recommend ways of ensuring consumer protection for  visitors  to
  the state.