GALVESTON, Texas — The event’s primary promoter and tourism officials enjoyed Fat Tuesday and are satisfied with the 2012 version of Mardi Gras Galveston. While cold and windy weather the first weekend and heavy downpours the second took a hit on the crowds, overall officials were pleased with how things turned out.
Mike Dean, president of Yaga’s Entertainment, which organizes the downtown entertainment district for Mardi Gras, said ticket sales were down 15 percent from 2011 when 23,070 admissions were sold during the two party weekends. He considered that a victory considering the ticket sales for the first weekend of the 2012 Mardi Gras were off by about 30 percent.
“We made a New England Patriots-type comeback, we just didn’t win the game,” Dean said of the last-minute surge Saturday that helped boost the numbers. “I think all the promotion and all the advertising we did had a positive effect for the entire island.”
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