Quote Originally Posted by Urbanized View Post
The visitor economy is all but invisible for most locals, who are blissfully ignorant to the positive impact it has on our city, and how pronounced it has become in the past 15 years. There are a number of reasons the City’s sales tax revenue has doubled over the past few years, and it can’t be neatly accounted for with population increases or inflation. Oh, and even if it could be accounted for by population increases, those are defensibly due to quality of life investments, which have been largely driven by MAPS.
I would think hotel/motel tax revenue would be a good place to start.