The Virtuous Winthrop Cycle

I worked for a few years in the tourism business here in Tacoma selling our city to tourists and conventioneers. And one of the interesting things that I learned is that the new Convention Center can accomodate much larger conventions than we have hotel rooms for. (Actually, to be specific, we don't have enough hotel rooms within walking distance or on the Link. The hotels on Hosmer can be filled by the Convention Center, but few convention planners want to have to ferry attendees back and forth.)

This is one of the reasons the Winthrop is so appealing as a new hotel: it's right on the Link which makes it easy to become part of the convention business. With more rooms nearby, we can allow bigger conventions which in turn fills more hotel rooms in the area.

The next 30 days are going to be very interesting!