Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:51:43 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] "Fierce competition for convention crowds"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

" ... Whatever the gimmick, convention and visitors bureaus across the
country are increasingly using incentives to fill their convention
centers with business travelers and show off their communities
in hopes that people will visit again.  The competition has been
especially fierce as business travel slowed in the past few years but
cities continued to build or expand convention facilities, creating
more space than demand for it. ..."

Full story at
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/12/26/luring.conventions.ap/index.html

It obviously also applies to non-business related travel.
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