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SAN DIEGO -- A week before Super Sunday, hotel reservations are down 15-to-25 percent from the last time this city hosted the NFL's championship game, prompting a drop in rates.
Two of the main reasons: a weak economy and cutbacks in corporate spending.
"Corporate America isn't coming to this year's Super Bowl like they did in 1998," said Matt Deline, of San Diego Hotel Reservations, Inc., the official reservations agency for this year's game.
Local room reservations agencies estimate that 70-to-80 percent of San Diego's 51,100 hotel and motel rooms have been booked, compared to 95 percent at the same time in 1998.
