Boycott Bomb? Hotel and Tourist Biz Thriving in Arizona…
It’s nice to see leftist subversives fail…
We have disabled pinging on this post. | Weasel Zippers(Fox News) — Arizona’s tourism industry has a target on its back, but the widespread boycotts over the state’s immigration law might not be hitting the mark.
Recent data compiled by a market research group show hotel bookings across the state — as well as in tourism hot spots Phoenix and Scottsdale — have been on the rise the past two months.
The numbers could dispel warnings from local officials that Arizona stands to lose a fortune and dampen the chances that cities and organizations will be able to compel the state to reverse its immigration law by choking its economy with a sanctions-style business boycott.
“Fundamentally, the boycotts have been unsuccessful,” said Barry Broome, president of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council.
The data from hotel industry research firm STR showed that for the state of Arizona, hotel occupancy was up 5.7 percent in May and up 8.3 percent in June compared with the same time a year ago.
In Phoenix, occupancy was up 10.6 percent in June; in Scottsdale, it was up 10.7 percent for the same period. Revenue also was up, with Arizona hotels raking in $148 million last month — up more than 11 percent from a year ago.
Broome said the state also has been able to attract new businesses to locate in Arizona despite bad publicity. He said his group plans to announce 2,000 to 3,000 new jobs thanks to investment from California, where Arizona boycotts are in place in several major cities, over the next few months.
“Business continues,” said Garrick Taylor, spokesman with the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Yeah. They’re visiting Arizona in droves because they know they are less likely to get mugged by an illegal alien. The new law chased most of them out.
So you have to ask why it is that Obama wants the law nullified? Is it because he wants to cause terror, murder, kidnapping, drugs and drug addiction and let the drug cartels run free in our national refuges?
Yep. The more damage Obama can do to the people of this country and our country in general, the better he likes it.
Obama must be impeached and worse.
Zip. Where can I get a shirt with this picture on it? I can think of several people who would like to order one.
Love it,thanks needed some good news.
Backfired!
Ya gotta love it~
Btw…anyone just catch Brewer on with John King/CNN?
Phony as hell as polls if I ever saw one….she did a great job as usual.
and we have Elton in Tucson last night slamming the muscians that boycotted AZ and in a couple days, Jumpin’ Joe Biden himself is coming! good to know the VP doesn’t support the boycott, even if his boss does. Way to show some backbone Joe!
Good!
I’ve already “corrected” my state representative to tell him that he is to support a similar law down here in Florida.
He agreed whole-heartedly.
We have good men down here in Florida…..
There are 3 kinds of lies, I learned in basic stats class: lies, darned lies, and Fix.News. Unless you’re a fisherman in the Gulf, anyone with a pigeon’s brain won’t find it surprising that occupancy is up compared with 2009 – remember the state Bush left the economy in? The best measure of hotel performance is “revenue per room”, and the way to tell if the boycotts have been effective is to compare that metric in AZ to that of other competing markets, like CA. It ain’t rocket science, unless you have a bias. On that score, the latest STR numbers (which Fix.News ignores) shows that only 3 cities in the top 25 US markets experienced DROPS in per-room revenue: Houston (-3%); St Louis (-8%); and yours truly, Phoenix (-6%). San Francisco was UP 9% – a whopping 15-point difference!
Nobody visits the kidnapping capitol in summer fronad.