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#1 Austin55

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Posted 16 August 2017 - 02:21 PM

Via FWBP

 

http://www.fortworth...aca1c3c657.html

 

 


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Posted 16 August 2017 - 03:03 PM

Great idea, especially with the new arena bringing in events at a steady pace.

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Posted 30 August 2017 - 12:12 PM

It passed.



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Posted 02 January 2020 - 01:51 PM

Look at this - these longhorns are paying their way!

 

The reality of tourism as a economic plan for the City.  Sales receipts being directly in to Fort Worth's coffers.

 

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Posted 03 January 2020 - 01:23 AM

Going back to the original FWBP article,

 

8.8 million visitors.

 

I recently saw something online that said Kansas City, which is half the population of Fort Worth, gets 25 million visitors annually.


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Posted 03 January 2020 - 10:22 AM

Simply means that we have got to get to work.  We can do it!



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Posted 03 January 2020 - 02:28 PM

Going back to the original FWBP article,

 

8.8 million visitors.

 

I recently saw something online that said Kansas City, which is half the population of Fort Worth, gets 25 million visitors annually.

Because Kansas City is the only major city in it's reason.  It doesn't have another larger economic and tourist powerhouse next to it.  It is not an apples to apples comparison.  We have to0 many other cities and areas in our metro area to contend with.



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Posted 03 January 2020 - 02:42 PM

8.8 are older numbers numbers. 2018 was 9.4 million. 2019 not released yet. 2020 should could cross 10 million. 

TBH- I'd take the KC numbers with a grain of salt. There's not really a standard way of measuring and reporting visitor counts, and some cities will inflate theirs. For example Dallas claims 27 million, which is probably a good comparison to Fort Worth's but makes KC's claim seem way high. 



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Posted 06 January 2020 - 11:03 AM

That makes sense then.  I remember seeing that figure and thinking at the time it seemed high.  I could remember what the Ft Worth number was when I saw the KC number, but I remembered it was single-digit millions.

 

I think another thing that throws off Fort Worth metrics for stuff like this is that the populations of many cities, especially eastward, represent just a portion of the metro area because the city is surrounded by old suburbs.  Fort Worth population is growing, but a good portion of that is through annexation of unincorporated areas that would be already-incorporated suburbs in midwestern and east coast cities, so Fort Worth's city population appears higher than it really is compared to other cities.  In other words, other cities don't have neighboring areas they can just add on and boost their population numbers.  They're landlocked.


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Posted 06 January 2020 - 11:39 AM

 

Going back to the original FWBP article,.....I recently saw something online that said Kansas City, which is half the population of Fort Worth, gets 25 million visitors annually.

 

Because Kansas City is the only major city in it's reason.  It doesn't have another larger economic and tourist powerhouse next to it.  It is not an apples to apples comparison.  We have to0 many other cities and areas in our metro area to contend with.

 

  I agree with what the points that rrj71 have offered.  Fort Worth does exist in a vaccum. It exists within a county and a region where there are several cities with populations above 100k.  Comparing KC to Fort Worth in the tourism sector is tricky.

 

The numbers below for both Tarrant County and the State of Texas gives a better way of evaluating the numbers for Fort Worth.  What is evident is that Fort Worth/Tarrant County contributes a significant share of the state's total tourism statistics.

 

https://staytarrantc...-tourism-stats/
 






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