Jamfest Cheer Super Nationals will be held in Indianapolis through 2015. The competition is one of the city’s largest annual
gatherings, attracting about 20,000 cheerleaders and spectators.
Bloomington visitors bureau director Mike McAfee says each visitor will spend an estimated $175 a day during the Buddhist
leader's sixth visit to Indiana.
The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association is spending $1.3 million to promote the city to eight Midwestern markets,
in
hopes of attracting more travelers.
Society says the attendance represents a 57.4-percent increase over typical walk-in traffic to the Indiana History Center.
In light of a shrinking budget, the state has dropped traditional advertising campaigns to promote tourism and is embracing
social media outlets to promote Indiana's attractions.
Unite Here, a Chicago-based hotel workers union, has been trying to organize employees at the Westin Indianapolis, Hyatt Regency
Indianapolis and Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites.
Too few of the city's revitalization projects are connected by attractive sidewalks, streets, gardens and plazas.
General Hotels Corp. will manage five more hotels in Indiana and Ohio.
The project will create an event-friendly corridor from the expanded Indiana Convention Center to Conseco Fieldhouse.
Sources close to the university said they expect a combination of parking facilities and a multi-use athletics venue and convocation
center to be built on the site.
An initiative to bring 10 of the biggest travel tour operators in the United Kingdom to this year’s Indianapolis 500 could
be a first step in bolstering business at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, area golf courses and Indianapolis International
Airport, where city boosters hope to establish direct flights to London.
Together, the Kentucky International Convention Center and the Kentucky Exhibition Center offer cavernous space. However,
Indianapolis is attracting more guests.
Designers of a walkway that connects the buildings are making the experience as attractive as possible in order to overcome
the psychological barrier of moving from one building to another.
Unfathomable just a decade ago, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is trimming demands on hospitality packages in a scramble
to fill vacancies and preserve what IMS officials call "a major profit center."
Seventeen agencies submitted proposals for the account.
The convention bureau has shelved its plan to attract a full-service hotel and instead will boost spending on tourism marketing.
Attracting the meeting is a coup for Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association officials who are trying to pull in
more health-related events.
Tickets were snapped up fast for this year’s Final Four, almost assuring a record economic impact for Indianapolis. But two
more wins for Purdue or Butler could bring down projected visitor spending.
The Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held in Indianapolis the next two years, but the conference’s
future in the city is uncertain after 2012.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is teaming with National Geographic on a permanent exhibit, "National Geographic
Treasures of the Earth," intended to provide immersive learning in archeological excavation.
