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Originally Posted by whatnext
Everybody raise your hands who has made a vacation trip to Nagano. Lillehammer? Salt Lake City? Turin?
The Olympics will have zero effect on tourism, beyond the few weeks of the immediate event. Anyone who believes otherwise has been sold a bill of goods. Indeed, hotels in Whistler are now privately complaining the big circus is scaring away visitors for all of the 2010 ski season.
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All of which were small cities, except for Torino. Actually, Torino has been experiencing about a 15% increase in tourism eversince it hosted 2006. Sydney also experienced the same thing.
The main difference with Vancouver and every other Olympics is we're the first to really turn the Olympics into a major worldwide tourism campaign.