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- Title
HOTEL DEMAND BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER SPORTS EVENTS: EVIDENCE FROM CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.
- Authors
Depken, II, Craig A.; Stephenson, E. Frank
- Abstract
This paper uses daily hotel occupancy data to examine the effects of a wide variety of political and sporting events on the hotel room market of Charlotte, North Carolina from 2005 to 2014. Two political conventions and NASCAR auto races are associated with large increases in hotel occupancy, prices, and revenue, but many other events have no discernable effect on Charlotte's hotel market. The results also indicate that occupancy effects before or after most events are modest at best. Back‐of‐the‐envelope calculations show incremental hotel‐tax receipts fall short of the debt service incurred in constructing and maintaining the city's sports venues. (JEL H71, Z23, Z28)
- Subjects
HOTEL occupancy taxes; SPORTS events; NASCAR (Association); POLITICAL conventions; RECEIPTS (Acknowledgments)
- Publication
Economic Inquiry, 2018, Vol 56, Issue 3, p1764
- ISSN
0095-2583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ecin.12572