Myrtle Beach, throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
If the local business owners [some of whom get well over 50% of their year’s revenue from bike week] won’t grow a pair and fight this, then screw ‘em.
I’m sure some other town will be more than happy to pick up all that cash.
Some guy west of us started an “East Coast Sturgis” up in the mountains and when it first started, it was cheap and fairly unpopulated.
Now the tickets are tripled in price and in spite of that, it’s getting incredibly crowded after only a few years.
He turned an empty, useless mountain top pasture into a million dollar business in 4 years.
The one little out-of-the-way hillbilly bar nearby and the mom & pop gas station up the road are positively overjoyed with all the money they make every July.