And I think that because we share so much information, the event rights holders have also realized that they are more accountable than they were in the past. Our annual meeting is becoming the place for a city to interact with event rights holders. And the opposite is true. If someone has an event that moves around the country, our meeting allows them to interact with cities. More than 140 cities were represented last year.
Some cities work on Super Bowls and some work on softball tournaments.
There s a huge sports pie out there, and there are different parts of it for different markets. The NASC has been around 10 years. Initially there were 20 or 30 sports commissions in the U.S., and now there are more than 200. But the initial founders of the organization saw networking as a huge component. One thing that has evolved is the event database, and the annual meeting has really evolved.