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Originally Posted by bobcat
Oh really?
Let's look at a recent report
https://www.visitsandiego.com/sites/...ecast_2016.pdf
According to their figures, the top 5 conventions by economic impact and attendance were:
1. SDCC, $140.0 miillion/130,000
2. Society for Neuroscience, $109.6 million/32,000
3. Digestive Disease Week, $62.8 million/20,000
4. American Society of Hermatology, $61.8 million/19,000
5. American Chemical Society, $60.5 million/19,000
SDCC's attendance was 4 times that of the #2 convention, yet the economic impact was only 28% greater! In fact, SDCC's attendance was 44% more than #2-5 put together (90,000), but its total economic impact was less than half of their $294.7 million combined total.
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Most of the people that attend comic con are younger. So they probably spend more like the average person would. Same type of crowd maybe that Disneyland gets on a given day. So yeah, doctors and the like as a group are going to spend more than the average group of tourists.
The biggest figure you're missing in that chart that has already been mentioned is media coverage which is free advertising for the city. This type of coverage of comic con extends outside the US too. So how do you place a price on that type of free press? Super Bowls, World Series, olympics, oscars, bowl games or whatever all come with various degrees of advertising for the cities they are held in.
Doctors at convention here is something you want but they are dwarfed by comic con when talking about advertising for the city. Hell the auto show here gets more national buzz. You can not ignore media coverage with events like comic con and stick to numbers (which by the way vary some from the above depending on your sources). If you do you are not making a fair comparison. I've seen the numbers cited by officials and there's a reason they all mention the national exposure along with the numbers of events like comic con, all star game, Super Bowl, holiday bowl, etc.
It's all part of the package of a event.