WBDW - Part 14
Our Tourism Industry's
Shamelss History of Bullshit*
2004 2009 %
Passengers
Airlines 20,085,326 20,941,715 4.3%
Cruise Ships 4,075,406 3,139,701 (22.9%)
Hotel Rooms 20,415 21,814 7%
Annual Visitors 8.9 million 11.0 million 23%
Convention &
Visitors Bureau
Expenses $5,070,000 $18,813,180 271%
Convention
Center
Expenses $25,002,081 $41,708,110 66.8%
Attendance 337,563 203,964 39.6%
SOURCE: Broward County
*Coupled with the local news media's
historic ignorance of and/or indifference to
the county's tax-funded Tourism Bureau's
endless stream of bogus data.
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