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Originally Posted by SpongeG
well it went from 17 million visitors prior to 2002 to 20 million visitors post 2002 not a huge increase what 4%? or so
i think the point is all olympics do is increase tourism numbers which will help business maybe not in a driect way but we'll take it
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Depends what the baseline is. 2000 was an economic dip year (tech bubble) and 2001 was 9/11 attacks, which impacted into 2002. So it wouldn't be surprising to see numbers rise "post-2002". Similarly visits to Vancouver will probably "take off" post-2010 because 2009 and 2010 were recession years.
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