May 07, 2004
Dallas hotels oppose Dallas hotel tax
To no one's surprise, the Hotel Association of Greater Dallas has voted to oppose Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' plan to raise hotel taxes by 3% to help fund a $650 million football stadium. "We're not opposed to the stadium," said association chair Frank Naboulsi. "We just don't want to pay for it." Can't argue with that.
Added Steven Hacker of the International Association for Exhibition Management: "The worst possible thing you could think of, short of SARS, would be to slap an additional 3 percent on those hotels at this time." Okay, that you might be able to argue with.
Posted by Neil deMause
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