San Diego is sweetening its bid to keep Comic-Con, offering organizers $500,000 in hotel tax income to keep the outrageous cocktail culture event in the city.
The Tourism Marketing District board agreed to budget $100,000 annually over the five-year period for Comic-Con, saying worldwide publicity from the event benefits the marketing of San Diego as the traveller destination.
The suggest covers 2011 as well as 2012, when San Diego's stipulate with Comic-Con International expires, as well as 2013 by 2015. It is contingent upon gathering organizers agreeing to stay in San Diego the 3 one more years.
Anaheim as well as Los Angeles have been behest for Comic-Con as well as its 126,000 attendees. A decision upon the convention's future home is approaching within weeks.
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Information from: The San Diego Union-Tribune, http://www.signonsandiego.com
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