According to The Kansas City Star, hotel and motel tourist revenue has gone up $73 million. Vistor spending is up 12%. Overnight visits rose 6.2 percent year over year. The average visitor is a 42-year-old man. Thirty-eight percent of travelers stay in a hotel. Four out of five overnight visits are for leisure.

“Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
~Sly James, Mayor, Kansas City Thomas Edison