Super Bowl visitors’ spending tops $274 million
The Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau estimates visitors spent $274 million during the Super Bowl.
The Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau estimates visitors spent $274 million during the Super Bowl.
According to the story:
The study conducted for the bureau includes items like hotels,
transportation and entertainment spending by visitors. The $274 million
is the gross spending number. About $175.1 million stayed local, said
Michael O’Callaghan, executive vice president and COO of the bureau,
meaning it didn’t go back to an out-of-town corporate owner or
franchise rights holder of a hotel or restaurant.
The figure, tallied by Webster University of St. Louis associate
economics professor Patrick Rishe, is down from a previous $300 million
estimate but is still quite impressive for the region, O’Callaghan
said.
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