Connecticut’s tourism districts may yet survive the state budget process.

The spending plan approved this week by the legislature’s Appropriations Committee sets aside more than $1.4 million for the three districts, as well as restores funding for Mystic Aquarium and a host of other tourist attractions.

“The game’s not over, but it’s looking better for the districts,” Ed Dombroskas, executive director of the Eastern Regional Tourism District, said Tuesday. The district promotes a 42-town region known as Mystic Country.

In February, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s two-year budget proposal called for zero funding for the districts. As a result, they faced a June 30 shutdown.

Under the Appropriations Committee’s budget, the eastern tourism district would receive $503,150 in each of the next two fiscal years, 2016 and 2017. That represents a 9.8 percent reduction in the $557,500 originally appropriated for the district this year, Dombroskas said.

The committee’s budget allocates $9.5 million a year for statewide tourism marketing, a reduction in the $10 million Malloy proposed. Even that was a comedown from the $12 million originally budgeted for this year.

Mystic Aquarium, which also faced the total elimination of state funding, would receive $531,668 a year in 2016 and 2017, a 9.8 percent reduction in the $589,106 it was originally supposed to get this year.

“We had full faith in the process,” Stephen Coan, the aquarium’s president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. “We felt strongly that our legislators would work hard to come to a resolution that would be in the best interest of our state. Tourism plays a vital role in the success of our state and our region in particular.”

Such other attractions as the Florence Griswold Museum and OpSail, sponsor of this fall’s Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival in New London, also had funding restored, according to Dombroskas.

The Amistad, for which Malloy had proposed $359,776 in funding, would get $324,698 in the Appropriations Committee’s budget.

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