Reply #35: statistics from the trenches

[kineneb]

I work at a small chamber of commerce...

Today I was sitting there, waiting for the phone to ring or for someone to come in the door, when I had a brilliant idea. I would look at information packet requests from last year and compare the numbers to this year. Guess what? Both tourism and relocation packet requests are down from 2004. Interesting thing was that we had a lot of relocation packet requests at the beginning of this year, but now we are not getting very many, compared to last summer. I think I am seeing the beginnings of a trend.

I have yet to ask any of the motel folks about occupancy rates. Might be interesting.