EL PASO, Texas -- The USBC Women's Bowling Championship has come to an end and with it the huge economic impact to El Paso.

During the last 100 days not only was the El Paso Convention Center packed with bowlers, but also area hotels and restaurants.

USBC officials said 30,000 women came to compete during the three-plus month event.

They brought with them their wallets, spending money on hotels, food and entertainment. A spokesman for USBC said the economic impact to El Paso has been huge -- in the neighborhood of $42-48 million.

The last pin has dropped, the last bowler has left, but city officials are not worried about the local economy being affected now that the tournament is done.

"Hopefully in the future we'll be bringing more events. In fact in November we're going to have the Texas Downtown Association is going to bring their annual conference here. So as more events come around we are going to see more people coming in, spending more dollars, spending more nights in our hotels," said Victor Venegas with the city of El Paso Economic Development Department.

Venegas said the best part of the tournament is that there are now 30,000 new ambassadors for the Sun City who will tell others about the good time they had and hopefully spawn more tourism to El Paso.