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Merusk t1_jeflp1q wrote

Wife and I were discussing this story this morning. At first I thought "Meh, no surprise it's a convention for a niche audience, they sell out quickly."

No, no. It's almost 8,000 rooms that sold out. There are a total of 24,000 hotel rooms in the Greater Pittsburgh area, according to a Trib story referencing "Smith Travel" as its source.

That means about 1/3 of ALL hotel rooms in Pittsburgh were sold out in less than 24 hours. That's crazy.

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VendaGoat t1_jefq2fh wrote

Don't quote me, but I remember reading articles that the full economic impact of this one convention is in the millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars for the city.

It's a heavily attended convention.

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