The high school aesthetic association is thinking about holding some regional tournaments to increase tourism in the areas. The Southeast Iowa Tourism board is afraid that the effect will actually be to draw tourism dollars away from that part of the state. They claim that because they don’t have many large cities that they won’t get their fare share of the contests, thus causing people from that part of the state to take their dollars to other parts of the state with out a reciprocal number of tourist dollars coming there. The claim is that the Des Moines area would be the largest benefactor and they already get more money from in state tourists than any other area. The IHSAA is working on a plan to cover that irregularity, possibly holding several of the Des Moines area teams events in places like Mt Pleasant or Burlington. That suggestion is raising the ire of the Polk County residents as they don’t think they should have to travel for three hours to see their teams play. What they don’t realize is that all teams in the state that make it to the state championships take the drive to Des Moines to see their respective teams play.