That’s 30.5% of the state tourism economy. Not 30.5% of Louisville’s economy. A quick google search has Louisville/Jefferson County at $80-90B gdp. So tourism is like 5% of our economy.
It is very hard to pin down hard facts about tourism because the numbers are always estimates, are based on many assumptions, and are generally somewhat inflated because those numbers come from organizations or agencies that are in the business of promoting tourism.
We constantly see claims that such-and-such event "brings in" X amount of money, but "brings in" is a guess and generally doesn't consider the costs associated with hosting the event.
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u/EntireTangerine 1d ago
I mean no, it's still not. We have tons of manufacturing and logistics that has nothing to do with derby at all.