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The number of citywide conventions held in Washington fell to 13 during 2012 from 22 a year earlier, said Ronnie Burt, VP of sales and services for Destination DC. The number of group roomnights fell by 25% in 2012 to 360,000, he said.
2012 was kind of a down year in Washington, D.C., actually, said Paige T. Dunn, regional director map of cities in florida of sales and marketing for mid-Atlantic and southeast U.S. regions for Kimpton Hotels Restaurants. We went into the year trying to be optimistic, but what with all the (disruptions) in Congress and it being an election year, some of the quarters didn t pan out the way we hoped.
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The key to reversing that trend might lie in conventions, sources said. Convention map of cities in florida business, while it doesn t spark all of the demand coming to the region s hotels, does drive compression, said Wood.
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