"We know summer in Wisconsin is where people want to be, and northeast Wisconsin's obviously got some amazing areas, when you look at Door County Peninsula, you look at Green Bay, you have some amazing landmarks that people from around the world know about." it just depends on the visitors and where they want to go," Prange said. The expected economic impact for areas on the fringe of Greater Milwaukee is ".hard to tell. She hopes that RNC visitors will arrive early in Wisconsin and stay late. In general, while Milwaukee will be the home base, the economic impact of the RNC should be felt across the state, said Alison Prange, chief operating officer of the Milwaukee 2024 Host Committee. If 2024 is another close race in Wisconsin, the GOP hope is that holding the RNC in Milwaukee could provide a boost in Republicans' favor, Benson said. "I tell people, we're not a red state, we're not a blue state, we're an interesting state," said TMJ4's Chief Political Reporter Charles Benson. Wisconsin is a presidential election battleground state. To replace taxes paid by visitors to Door County in 2022, each household in Door County would need to be taxed an additional $2,000, according to Destination Door County. Key hopes people who might commute from northeast Wisconsin to the RNC will become Key-Way customers.Įven those not involved in the tourism industry can benefit due to the taxes paid by visitors.Īn example comes from Destination Door County. The family-owned company is less than a year old. will be ready," said Key, who is part-owner of Key-Way Transportation, based in Manitowoc. Matt Kohls / WGBA Johnnie Key, part-owner of Key-Way Transportation based in Manitowoc, hopes any RNC visitors staying in the Manitowoc area will hire Key-Way for back-and-forth transportation. Neither Visit Milwaukee nor the Milwaukee 2024 Host Committee had specific estimates for hotel spending for the RNC.īut in the most recent RNC before the pandemic, in Cleveland in 2016, average downtown hotel rates more than doubled, compared to the previous two years in that city, according to a group at Cleveland State University.Īnd for anyone who needs transportation back and forth from the Manitowoc area to Milwaukee, Johnnie Key is ready to help. "I'm really excited to see how many people it's going to bring," Kaderabek said. Traveling even farther south from Manitowoc along I-43 to Cleveland, Wis., Elle Kaderabek, the owner and innkeeper at the Highland Lodge, hopes that a single group will buy out all of the lodge's ten rooms during the RNC. "We're hoping that the traffic also comes north, just not stay in Milwaukee, but definitely come here," said Amy Noll, guest services specialist at the Harbor Town Inn in Manitowoc. ".ou're never full seven days a week, so this will give us the opportunity to bring some more people up here."įifteen minutes south, there is another hotel where the theme is based on the water.Īnd an echoed hope that some RNC visitors will be guests. Jim Van Lanen Jr., the general manager at the Lighthouse Inn, said while the RNC will occur during the busy summer season, he hopes the Convention will mean a boost for the hotel's business. Anyone looking for a room could also look for one in northeast Wisconsin., and a hotel general manager in Two Rivers has already received calls in connection with the RNC.
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