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Originally Posted by nik-
Also, I find this to be highly suspect.
Really? 87% of tourists to our nation's capital went principally for the Senators? I don't think so. Sounds like a question they were asking right outside the arena on game night.
http://www.ottawa.com/about/main_e.shtml
6.35 million visitors come principally for the Senators. Ladies and gentlemen, the most popular hockey team in history. |
If you read the report, you would understand that 87% statistic were tourists
at a game/event, not tourists to the region.
This simply indicates the vast majority of visitors from outside the area who go to the games do so primarily for that reason. They aren't in the region and therefore decide to attend.
This is an important distinction. If you asked this same question at a Ducks/Angels game, I'd venture to guess that number would be very small, as most would be in the area to visit Disneyland.
Without asking this question of tourists at the event, there is no way to properly determine the economic impact of the team/venue versus the impact the area itself had on attendance.