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Team coverage of Tall Ships Tacoma 2008.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Posted by Scott Fontaine @ 10:51:56 am
I talked with Tall Ships Tacoma spokesman Matthew Erlich about the festival’s planned attendance of 700,000. Exactly how, I asked, did they arrive at that number?
The answer: They looked at 2005’s attendance.
Organizers planned for 400,000 people during the inaugural festival, Erlich said, but no one kept an official attendance. Based on police estimates at the Parade of Sail, the length of lines and the number of personal watercraft in the area, organizers estimated between 700,000-800,000 people attended the event.
“We hope the number of 700,000 visits will be met,” Erlich said, “and I’m pretty confident there will be that number of visitors coming to the festival.”
