Make Salt Lake City a Place the World Flocks to Visit

   I think of Dubai, and how it has vaulted to become one of the world's most-visited cities. I think of how they built their 160-story skyscraper, opened innovative museums, and created Wild Wadi Water Park. I read of their choreographed fountains, the Dubai Fountain Complex.  I hear-tell how they have the world's biggest natural flower garden, one of the world's largest malls, and a village representing 75 countries.
   Build it, and they will come. Create it, and the world will flock to your doorstep.
   And, I think of Salt Lake City, and of how it could do the same, if it wanted. I think of the mile-after-mile of land stretching out from the airport, along the lake, and of how that land somehow has escaped development. I wonder at how we could put tourist attraction after tourist attraction there, stretching them into a tourist district uncommon, if at all in existence. Usually, tourist sites are scattered about, not brought together into a massive tourist zone.
   Built it, and they will come. Invite the world, and the world will come calling.
   I wonder at having so much land available right next to an international airport, of how, when tourists come, they often come by airline, and of how they need to arrange transportation to get to the sites. I consider how we could make tourism more convenient than perhaps anyone has ever made it, and of how we could even place some of our tourist sites right within walking distance of the airport.
   Economy tourism: Fly in, see your site, and fly out the same day, without even needing to rent a hotel. Tourism without luggage.
   It is said: Location, location, location. Why would that rule not apply here? And, if we can make tourism more convenient than it ever has been, why not take up this opportunity?
   Make Salt Lake City a place the world flocks to visit.