Business View Magazine | June 2022

186 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 6 which is when the bulk of our event activity happens for the obvious reasons,” Dygert says. Monday through Wednesday are “turnover” days where WestWorld readies its spaces for the next event or function. “Just like the hotel business, you’ve got to clean the rooms and switch out the bedsheets, so we do all that same stuff, but on a very large scale,” adds Dygert. The WestWorld property also has a large RV component, with a number of hook-up sites scattered throughout the complex, oriented around various arenas and venues. “We have over 400 RV slips, which are parking spots that have water and electric,” Dygert says. “People could just be driving through in an RV and decide to stop and lay over and use it, but the focus here is event support. Over the last couple of years with the pandemic, RV sales on a national level have been extremely high because people quit flying and they quit doing hotels, so they started buying RVs and staying on the ground.” Along with the RV campground, what’s made WestWorld more resilient to the pandemic’s slings and arrows has been a rather ideal distribution of indoor and outdoor assets. “The choices to do events in a different format were abundant,” Dygert affirms. “Back to being in Arizona, where the sun always shines and the weather is dependable, that made things like asking event producers to look at different ways of putting on their event a whole lot easier. Even those events that were highly dependent on the arenas – you could change the way you congregated people inside.” WestWorld built its last big capital asset, the Tony Nelson Equestrian Center, in 2014. It was a two-year project to erect the four-building structure and, with a bit of foresight, it was designed with air quality in mind. “It works in two formats,” Dygert explains. “It’ll serve the horse world to the east end of the property, but you can turn it around and make it a commercial, high public assembly to the west end of the