Salt Lake City Wants to Show Meeting Planners a Good Time With Its New Website
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The Visit Salt Lake tourism bureau is smart to aggressively show the city's fun factor for meetings and conventions to combat the Mormon organization's bizarre legacy.
Before the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, there was a whole host of ridiculous drinking laws in the state of Utah, influenced by the Mormon Church, which is based here in the capital.
That’s (mostly) old history. Following the Games, the drinking laws have normalized for all intents and purposes, except for a continuing bit of weirdness known as the Zion Curtain. It’s a sectional wall required in newer restaurants that bartenders have to hide behind to pour cocktails so they're out of sight of children. The majority of Utah residents are naturally against the law.
With regard to the lucrative meetings and conventions market, the reputation around Utah’s drinking laws once suggested to meeting planners that the locals lived in covered wagons, and it was never 5 o’clock anywhere, ever.
Today, U.S. convention planners are aware that the legislation has change
