Various places around the country made a LOT of money last time we had it here. Think about it, a couple hundred thousand people show up and stay in hotels for a month, eating at restaurants, drinking at bars. That’s a fat wad of cash into the economy.
I’m kind of tired of us depending on tourism to pump up the economy, and at best it would be a wash with yet another round of public-financed sports palaces. Let the oil-rich emirates, less money to spread to the terrorists.