http://artpetty.com/2009/11/18/why-competition-is-so-great-and-what-chicago-needs-to-learn/ Art Petty on Leadership, Management and Professional Development Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://artpetty.com/2009/11/18/why-competition-is-so-great-and-what-chicago-needs-to-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-13968 Greg Anastassatos Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:41:56 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2906#comment-13968 After reading that, I feel sorry for Chicago conventions. A similar thing happened in Las Vegas about a year ago. President Obama made a joke about big business going to Las Vegas and partying and wasting money instead of working. After making that comment, some crazy amount of conventions canceled and moved. One of the conventions backed out and lost their $15,000 deposit and moved it to San Francisco where they paid 6X what they would have paid in Las Vegas. That really hurt Las Vegas and the State of Nevada and I don't know if we have recovered. Thanks Art for letting me write a comment. After reading that, I feel sorry for Chicago conventions. A similar thing happened in Las Vegas about a year ago. President Obama made a joke about big business going to Las Vegas and partying and wasting money instead of working. After making that comment, some crazy amount of conventions canceled and moved. One of the conventions backed out and lost their $15,000 deposit and moved it to San Francisco where they paid 6X what they would have paid in Las Vegas. That really hurt Las Vegas and the State of Nevada and I don’t know if we have recovered. Thanks Art for letting me write a comment.

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