GlobeSt.com reported Friday that preliminary findings of anoutside audit found that the bureau's original report of 384,000room bookings may have been inflated by as many as 40,000 rooms.The exaggerated figures apparently allowed 10 sales people tocollect $23,000 in unwarranted bonuses, the audit indicates.
Developers of hotels and other tourist-dependent real estateprojects often use convention and visitor bureau figures whendetermining how large their projects should be, or whether theyshould build at all.
In a one-page, prepared statement released Friday, BureauChairman George Medak acknowledged that the agency has had someaccounting problems but that they "appear to be relatively minorand correctable."
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