said between the martin luther king jr holiday and the latest immigration law serrano said of arizona they seem to always be behind the times its not just outofstate politicians calling for economic protests rep raul grijalva a democrat who represents southern arizonas 7th congressional district has called for a convention boycott of his own state as for the airline boycott todd lehmacher a spokesman for us airways said weve received a few inquires but are not aware of anyone canceling their trip at this point he declined to say whether the airline will take a stand on the law the american immigration lawyers association has already announced that it is moving its 300to400person september convention scheduled for scottsdale out of arizona other groups are locked into contacts but some making new bookings are avoiding the state hotels are already feeling the pinch weve probably lost upwards of 100000 in business said jim hollister general manager of the firesky resort spa a kimpton hotel in scottsdale some were definite on the books for us some were people who were looking to stay with us hollister said the biggest dollar loss came from corporate bookings but that plenty of leisure travelers called or emailed and specifically said they were canceling because of the immigration law some guests who stayed last week he said said they loved the hotel but werent coming back until the immigration law was changed several large companies planning conferences are deciding to skip arizona according to blake fleetwood president of cook travel which has five agencies in the greater new york area fleetwood said he is organizing events for several investment banks and doctors groups who contacted him after the law passed tourism industry fears the worst they want to take any large arizona properties off the list for now fleetwood said they dont want to support that type of behavior fleetwood said that a boycott by the tourism industry could move policy citing the king holiday example if we can affect 5 or 10 percent of their business thats a huge hit for them he said there are too many other places to go to that are dying for business fleetwood immigrated from south america when he was 4 and said that 90 percent of his agents were also not born in this country he said the travel industry is watching this new law carefully and wont sit by idly the rest of the united states is not going to put up with their antiamerican attitude he said weve sent many travelers to arizona but now they dont want to go there until they stop these gestapolike laws its just unamerican arizona with plenty of second homes and a prerecession housing bust is hurting more than most of the country tourism there has been steeply off and debbie johnson president of the arizona hotel and lodging association said this isnt going to help obviously our members are concerned johnson told the associated press i thought