
Between the soft sand beaches, Gilded Age mansions and nestled shops of Thames Street, Newport is undeniably one of Rhode Island’s most popular tourist destinations, in a state where visitors spent $6 billion in 2024 and supported nearly 90,000 jobs, according to state data. Yet despite Newport’s reliance on tourism, Salve Regina University, the city’s
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