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Draft announcement puts tourism organizations on the clock

You now know when hundreds of thousands of football fans will flock to northeast Wisconsin for the NFL Draft.

 

The Green Bay Packers, the NFL, and other local officials announced on Monday that the 2025 NFL Draft will take place April 24th-26th. Draft activities will center around Lambeau Field and Titletown, but the impact of hosting the event is expected to stretch much further than that. The 2023 NFL Draft in Kansas City saw over 312,000 fans come for the festivities, and another 54 million people watched the event unfold on television. Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy expects a total economic impact on the state to be around $94 million. Destination Door County Chief Communications Officer Jon Jarosh says they have been working with Discover Green Bay to serve the huge crowds best coming to the region.

Since 2015, the NFL Draft will have visited Chicago, Nashville, Las Vegas, Cleveland, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Detroit by the time Green Bay gets its turn in 2025. Jarosh adds that Destination Door County has talked to other areas similar to theirs to see the impact the draft had on a host city’s outlying area.

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