Arizona’s Immigration Law and the Cost of Cancelled Conferences and Conventions

WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2010.  The lucrative convention and conference business is the backbone of Arizona’s tourism industry and it has been significantly hurt by the state’s enactment in April of harsh anti-immigration legislation. The industry’s losses will cost the state $253 million in economic output and more than $86 million in lost wages over the next two to three years, according to a report commissioned by the Center for American Progress.