Wisconsin Dells Convention Hosting Stage II - Critical Lack

The Village of Lake Delton has given the Kalahari Resort 10 million publicly collected dollars to build a convention center ( 212 thousand square feet) capable of serving large regional - national groups.  This is a public - private partnership forged to create a physical location designed to attract a huge new population of shared customers in to the Wisconsin Dells area.

The Wisconsin Dells area lacks the population to staff these tourism business modals.  In 2017 more than 4500 work experience travelers came from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Program to help support local tourism efforts.  The need for more and more J1VISA Program work experience travelers is growing way beyond the 4500 calculation in 2017.

The lending institutions, the insurance providers, the public service administration now understand the entire economy of the Wisconsin Dells area is dependent upon the ability to attract ever higher numbers of work experience travelers through the J1VISA Program.  The Village of Lake Delton has been allocating public money for land owners who construct housing for temporary work staff on their land.

Noah's Ark has received 1.5 million dollars from the Village of Lake Delton to construct two dorm like buildings and a convenience store.  This will be located on Lake Avenue and serve approximately 600 work experience travelers coming in to Wisconsin Dells from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Program.  The new housing is part of a promotion to attract more and more work experience travelers.

From a broader view, these new temporary housing complexes are staffed with monitoring services.  The Wisconsin Dells area is implementing strategies that are expected to produce evidence of ongoing effort to better comply with Federal Immigration Laws.  Housing regulations have been amended and code enforcement staff have been hired to reduce the availability of private housing for temporary staff in the Wisconsin Dells area.  Public service software has been updated to connect community providers through the cloud to better track federal immigration and customs concerns at the local level.

The critical lack is labor and the Wisconsin Dells area is completely dependent upon the Federal J1VISA Programming to continue to economically operate.  The Wisconsin Dells area has entered stage II of the convention hosting industry.