Cities Looking for Reasons

With visitor traffic down in just about every major metropolis, it's no wonder city and municipal governments are looking for reasons behind it. Boston's Mayor Tom Menino reviewed a report the Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau commissioned from PriceWaterhouseCoopers, which studied future bookings for the city's new $800 million convention center (scheduled to open in 2004), and found the forecasts fell short. He asked the the Mass. Convention Center Authority, which shares convention