Electric Daisy Carnival: LVRJ.com

Early this year, lodging industry veterans scratched their heads when hotel rates were spiking upward during an apparently ho-hum weekend in late June.

But soon enough, they learned about the Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-night electronic music rave that started June 24 and put more than 240,000 tickets up for sale.

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