Phoenix Delivers.  It’s not just a saying – it’s fact. Here are a few reasons why Phoenix and the 2012 Republican National Convention will be the winning ticket.

Phoenix is the nation’s fifth-largest city in a metropolitan area of over 4.3 million residents.  It is visited by more than 13 million people each year.   

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, the nation’s eighth busiest airport, just four miles from the proposed Convention facilities, provides nonstop service from over 100 destinations and is known as “America’s Friendliest Airport.”

Two Super Bowls.  The most widely-attended annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour.  Two annual NASCAR races.  Barrett-Jackson: The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auction.  The All-Arabian Horse Show and the 2009 National Rifle Association Convention.  Multiple national championship college football games hosted by the Fiesta Bowl.  A World Series.  And the upcoming 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.  More than nearly any other metropolitan area Phoenix knows how to successfully host major events. 

Arizona will celebrate its 100th Birthday in 2012, presenting a compelling and timely association with the 2012 Republican National Convention.

World-class convention, event and hospitality space.  US Airways Center in downtown Phoenix, the proposed Main Convention site, seats over 18,000 attendees with flexible space to accommodate hospitality suites, meetings, and other requirements.

The newly-expanded Phoenix Convention Center, two blocks from US Airways Center, has more than 900,000 square feet of meeting and event space, within over two million total square feet, to accommodate media work space, office space and ancillary function rooms.  The Convention Center offers state-of-the-art audio-visual, telecommunications, and information technology. 

The Phoenix area has over 50,000 hotel guest rooms and is home to some of the finest resorts in the nation.  Nearly 3,000 hotel rooms are within walking distance of the Convention Center. 

Newly constructed and opened light rail system makes charting downtown and the 21-mile route it covers easier than ever before, including downtown, central Phoenix and airport stops.

The Greater Phoenix area, laid out as a grid city with remarkably easy to navigate non-toll highways and roads, offers convenient and time-efficient driving.

There are a myriad of recreational and scenic opportunities available to visitors to the Phoenix area.  Phoenix is home to the largest municipal park in the world. South Mountain Park and Preserve is the largest municipal park in the world, covers more than 16,500 acres, and has more than 50 miles of hiking, biking and equestrian trails.

Location in the growing Southwest with a politically-charged home base; during the 2008 Presidential cycle, Arizonans gave or raised $10.7 million for the RNC and presidential campaigns.