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Arizona Hotels Already Feeling Effects of Boycott
While no statistics are available yet on the immediate impact of the boycott of Arizona as a convention destination, hotel owners are already getting cancellations from corporations and organizations according to the Arizona Republic:
The Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association said the estimated economic value of the cancellations ranges from $5,000 for the smaller groups to $45,000 for the larger.
Kristen Jarnagin, vice president of communications for the association, said the properties did not report the types of groups… Also, a number of tourists have been calling or writing hotels to cancel plans.
“What the biggest unknown is and what our biggest concern is,” Jarnagin said, “is that a lot of groups who are currently in the process of planning and would have considered Arizona won’t even consider us. They will just mark us off their list.
“So it’s almost like the silent boycott. We likely won’t ever know the real economic impact because we will just never hear from those people.
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