Orlando, Vegas - 2 of a Kind

Orlando Sentinel - February 7, 2005

Orlando came off fairly well in a recent Brookings Institution report that took issue with all of the convention-center expansion going on across the country. And the report's author, Haywood Sanders, a university professor in Texas, has had more good things to say about Orlando since the big study came out. Sanders told Tradeshow Week magazine that Orlando "is really quite promising" now that it has doubled the Orange County Convention Center's exhibit space to more than 2 million square feet. He said Orlando and Las Vegas are clearly the two national powers now, with "revenue bases that year in and year out will generate so much money that they can out-market, out-advertise and out-build almost anyone else."