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TC Hotel 1, LLC dba Residence Inn Big Sky/The Wilson Hotel is a lodging facility located directly in the town of Big Sky, Montana. Big Sky, MT is a small resort town located midway between Yellowstone National Park and Bozeman, MT. Though small in size, the town of Big Sky was placed on the map as a major international destination after the completion of Big Sky Resort in 1973, the second largest ski resort in the United States. Simply put, Big Sky is to Montana what Aspen is to Colorado, a large-scale resort town with world-class ski slopes nestled high up in the Rocky Mountains. The tourist season in Big Sky is two-fold. The first portion of the busy period starts at the beginning of the winter in the fall, when the ski season begins in the high elevations of Montana. This extremely busy ski season that brings in skiing vacationers from around the world then lasts until mid-April, when the spring arrives in Montana, melting the snow and closing down the ski slopes for the season. While the spring marks the end of the ski season in Montana, it does not mark the end of the tourist season, however. In fact, the tourist season in Montana mostly begins in the spring, as summer-based mountain outdoor activities are by far and away the largest tourism draw to the state. According to the Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research, the state of Montana hosts approximately 10-million tourists per year, with tourism remaining a 2.9-billion-dollar state industry that creates 48,000 jobs. The majority of this tourism takes place in the warm weather months when travelers come to see Yellowstone National Park or Glacier National Park, both of which are not accessible during the winter months. An estimated 2.6 million of Montanas tourists come to see Yellowstone National Park alone during the summer season. Due to our location just miles from Yellowstone National Park, many of these 2.6 million tourists, that come exclusively during the warm weather season when the park is accessible, start their adventure in the Big Sky, Montana area. Big Sky and the surrounding Yellowstone area boasts some of the best mountain biking, white water rafting, horseback riding, hiking, fishing, backpacking and rock climbing that the American West has to offer. This keeps tourists streaming into the Big Sky area in high numbers through the summer season through the school break, when families and students tend to go on summer vacations. Then in mid-August, when students return to school and the summer vacation period ends, we go into a slow period until the snow returns once again and the ski season starts all over again in the fall. The Wilson Hotel has a peak-load need as we do stay open year-round, but just increase in business dramatically during the tourist months starting at the beginning of the ski season in the fall and ending in mid-August at the end of the summer season, when most students return to school and the summer break/vacation period has ended. Approximately 80% of our overall business is conducted from the earliest snowfall through mid-August of each year, whereas only approximately 20% of overall business is conducted from mid-August through the earliest snowfall of each year, outlining a definitive peak-load need for temporary workers. Starting at the beginning of the ski season we need to employ at least 1 additional temporary cook in order to keep up with peak period demands, and we then have no need whatsoever for the additional cook by mid-August of each year, when the Montana tourism season has finally wound down. Thus, the job opportunity and number of workers being requested for certification both indisputably reflect a temporary need. Year after year, it becomes increasingly difficult for area hospitality employers to secure the number of temporary employees required to maintain peak period operations. ( See Attachment for Full Temporary Need)