Fun with numbers -- RV edition
We'll stipulate that the RV convention in NLR has an economic impact. Downtown restaurants were busy with RVers at lunch yesterday. But please.
Commodore Hays was quoted in the D-G today as estimating a financial impact up to $5 million, the figure mentioned in the headline.
Presume there are 1,000 RVs in town. That's $5,000 per RV. That's $1,000 per day for the five-dayconvocation, or $700 per day if you say every single one of the supposed 1,000 RVs arrived two days early and stayed the full run. Since none is renting a hotel room, since many cook out in their rolling palaces, since they're not using much gas while they're parked, you really have to employ a fancy rollover formula to produce this bodacious figure.
Comments
Yeah, the 5 million figure has got to be inflated unless they are paying some very high registration fees.
The bottom line though is that it is bringing in money to the city of NLR. Just as Riverfest or conventions do to LR. I can't understand how anyone could have a problem with that.
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September 26, 2008 10:06 AM
How is NLR dealing with the "Happy Hour" problem at the riverfront RV gypsy encampment? Drinking in public is a big time no-no on the North side of the river. If some locals were down there with fishing poles and 40 ouncers in a paper sack the NLRPD would be all over them with billy clubs and handcuffs.
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September 26, 2008 11:43 AM