Arizona getting collateral boost from Florida hurricanes?

That's what this article in USA Today says, anyway.

Meeting planners and vacationers increasingly have been booking and making inquiries about Arizona in the wake of destructive hurricanes that have pummeled Florida.

As one hotel spokesperson pointed out, "Arizona has everything that Florida has to offer, except the ocean." And, of course, hurricanes. Some are predicting just a short-term shift, others that it may last a couple of years before Florida recovers its full fall meeting potential.

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