(Atlanta, GA) A Georgia tourism official says Major League Baseball s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta will have a 100-million dollar impact. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Friday that the All-Star game and draft won t be held in Atlanta, in response to a new law critics say will make it harder to vote. Holly Quilan is CEO and president of Cobb Travel and Tourism. She said losing revenue for the eight-thousand Atlanta-area hotel rooms contracted to Major League Baseball will hurt the hospitality industry and other local businesses.
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Georgia s Cobb County estimates that MLB s decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta will cost the tourism industry in the area $100 million.
MLB pulled the All-Star Game out of Georgia on Friday in protest of the state s controversial new voting restrictions, signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp (R) last month.
The decision was the furthest a company has gone in protest of the legislation.