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Old Posted Aug 3, 2009, 7:08 PM
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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.
Actually I went to Salt Lake City after seeing the Olympics. So there. I know that we tend to be overly optimistic on this site but your pessimism is just down right Carole Jamesesque