Some of these convention goers have never been to your town..it is like a black hole in their knowledge base because they have no experience with your area. If they have a super time, they come back and request your town as the spot for the next event. Or they return and decide to live here full time, or locate a business here or just vacation here again..pumping more tourism dollars into your economy. Either way you win with new convention tourism dollars and what it can grow into. Think there is nothing to do exciting in your home town? What do you have that congested cities do not? Promote those recreational activities. In Houlton Maine, depending on the season we have beautiful lakes, miles of scenery and woods to hike and outdoors is the attraction. Those are the cards 
New dollars coming into your local town economy when you live in Maine. Every real estate broker, banker, business owner should be trying to attract thru their connections and industry sphere to put a bright spotlight of promotion on their home town.
Every state organization, club or organization is a target for their annual convention. Living in Maine, "Vacationland", every town is a tourist destination if you promote and play the face cards you are holding of what your area offers. How many motel rooms, bed and breakfasts, rental cottages and cabins at local lakes do you have? Have you or the local chamber of commerce inventoried these with links, contact numbers and done the same for restaurants and public facilities right down to maps and their locations with links on websites to attract that person on a lap top at 9pm that is intrusted with where the next meeting will be held? In your state, are most of these events only held in a handful of venues year in and year out? Why? Is your area lacking something or has no one gone after this business? Sometimes it is a clear case of location..and not being central enough with gas prices, time in travel. But if it is in your state, why can't you be part of the taking turns to have it in your town this year...and then the other end of the state the next and sometimes in the middle? Fairs fair right? What does your area lack that others hosting the events have that could easily be added or put on a local wish list as an expenditure needed that boils down to spending a little money to attract alot? If some 300 person state group figures your area is too small or you are not presently on the map for a turn at this event, help your local chamber of commerce go after it. If they are already scheduled for a venue this year, and next, don't give up. Go after 2011! How? Do blogs on everything great about your area. Part of the blog mix is why outfits should have their state convention, state sporting championship, or whatever the event in your home town. Have helpful links to all the lodging, information with images and videos about the area, and make sure there is something for everyone. These folks that roll into your town for a weekend bring money..they buy gas, meals, help employ and subsidize many area businesses putting on the event and they put your hometown on the map. 
you lay down for the world to see in blogs, videos, podcasts and all your written propaganda about the place you love, raise your family in and make a living from. An executive retreat for a corporation, a law firm, an advertising agency...for whoever to Northern Maine for a brainstorming session away from the office they spend day in and day out at is economical, fruitful and memorable.
Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Putting Aroostook County On The Map...Selling Real Estate
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