> Meetings & Conventions: Newsline Security Delays At Major Airports Lia LorenzanoHow CVBs Raise and Spend MoneyA 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 Back to NewslineM&C Home PageCurrent Issue | Events Calendar | Newsline | Incentive News | Meetings Market ReportEditorial Libraries | CVB Links | Reader Survey | Hot Dates | Contact M&C