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Security Delays At Major Airports
Lia LorenzanoHow CVBs Raise and Spend
Money
A look at funding and expenditures of the average bureau
Average hotel tax
11.6%
Average % of room tax revenue used to fund
the CVB
56%
Bureaus funded primarily from room taxes
82%
CVBs that spend more than half of their
budget on:
• Convention sales/marketing
27%
• Tourism marketing
25%
• Convention services/housing
3%
Average total gross revenue of a CVB
$5.1 million
Source:
Survey of 172 members of the International Association of
Convention and Visitor Bureaus, December 2001
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