A lot of cities will host a certain event for years and be very comfortable with that. You can only do so many of those a year. If you do the same thing every year, they re no longer unique and special. So there is an element of switching what events there are. And there are some limitations.
Facilities dictate what a city can do.
Your sports commission, the Richmond Sports Backers, is a nonprofit community-based sports commission. There are about 10 of the 200 that are solely privately funded. Our numbers are dwindling. More and more the number of visitors you bring to town is an important measuring stick of your success. And that usually means governments taxing hotel room stays, taxing restaurants, car rentals, etc.