UArizona Graduation boosts business

Photos at Old Main —-with proud parents standing by—-are a prime part of UArizona graduation traditions. The University will grant about eight thousand bachelors, Masters and PH.Ds.

KGUN9 reporter Craig Smith asked UArizona parent Ernest Johnson: “When you come here for something like commencement, how much of an investment is that? Businesses along University have a ready made clientele of thousands of students but take eight thousand students getting degrees, add parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and that’s some serious cash flow.

Visiting families need a place to stay, so that means a business boom for hotels like the Tucson Marriott University Park. General Manager Jill Nghiem says 250 rooms are full.

If they're rich they pay all of it, if they're poor they pay none of it, in which case the student would.

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