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David C. DePetrillo, director of tourism in Rhode Island, will retire effective September 30, the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation announced this morning.

Mark Brodeur, current director of tourism operations, will be promoted to director of tourism.

"David is a nationally recognized leader in the tourism industry and has played an integral role in growing our state's tourism industry and significantly impacting our state's economy over the past three decades," said Saul Kaplan, Executive Director, RIEDC.

In 2007, Rhode Island's tourism industry recorded $4.24 in billion tourism expenditures and visits to the Ocean State grew by 3 percent, the EDC said.

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