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      <![CDATA[Keeping up with inflation requires growth in income, which is not necessarily growth in customers (or room nights or whatever). If growth in room nights (or customers) was the only thing that could keep a business in business then our world would be in a whole lot of trouble.
        
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      <![CDATA[hipp5-- if you're planning just staying even in any business, you want at least more than predicted rate of inflation, or more than 2 percent a year growth. There's been nothing like that in the convention industry.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm not a huge fan of the convention center idea, but I gotta say that this article and argument are complete bunk. I plotted that data and found that over the given time period there's a mild upward trend in number of conventions, and a mild downward trend in both peak and total room nights.
        
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      <![CDATA[Huge. Waste.
        
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      <![CDATA[Conventional wisdom is always wrong.
        
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