Anaheim Ranks 10th as Draw for Conventioneers
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Anaheim drew nearly a million convention and business meeting delegates to its hotels and convention center in 1986, ranking as the nation’s 10th-busiest convention city for the year, according to an article to be published Monday in a travel trade newspaper.
Topping the Business Travel News list of convention cities is New York, which drew 4.5 million delegates last year. Chicago was a distant second with 2 million.
Anaheim, with a reported 420,000 square feet of exhibit space, was host to 925,532 conventioneers and business meeting delegates, falling just short of the ninth-place mark of 965,031 set by neighboring Los Angeles.
The other cities in the Business Travel News ranking of the top 10 convention cities in 1986 were Dallas, third with 1.9 million visitors; Atlanta, fourth with 1.57 million; Las Vegas, fifth with 1.52 million; Washington, sixth with 1.1 million; San Francisco, seventh with 1.06 million, and Houston, eighth with 1.05 million.
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