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NYC aims to compete with Vegas as wedding hot spot (Newsday)
Bloomberg gave City Hall's famously gritty marriage bureau a gleaming makeover Watch out Las Vegas: New York City wants to become the new No. 1 place to tie the knot.
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Future of NYC: Tourism pins hope on promos (Crain's New York Business)
Mired in a recession, industry rolls out discount programs to entice visitors.
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Signposts: Cruise provides look at Alaska's Last Frontier (Inside Bay Area)
Also, Napa Valley gears up for annual mustard festival and New York City sees boost in tourism but not at usual rate.
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Look east to boost tourism (China Daily)
Fewer tourists may gawk at New York City sights such as the Wall Street Bull, the city's symbolic statue of financial optimism and prosperity, this winter as fallout from the financial crisis tightens wallets around the world.
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Jonathan Spitz Named Vice President Of Business Development For Travelscream (Hospitality Net)
Vail Valley, Colo. — Travelscream, a leading provider of content distribution and social media marketing tools for the travel industry, announces today the appointment of Jonathan Spitz as Vice President of Business Development, managing the company's expansion from its New York office. Spitz will be responsible for ushering the company into an exciting era of growth: expanding Travelscream's ...
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Travel briefs: Big Apple, big resort, best bookstores, best ski resorts (Pioneer Press)
NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City attracted a record number of visitors in 2008, but the growth in the city's tourism industry has slowed amid a worldwide economic downturn. Bloomberg says an estimated 47 million people visited the city in 2008 — a record high — beating 2007 by 1 million visitors. And those tourists generated $30 billion in spending, setting another record ...
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Doug Carrillo of Desires Hotels Collection Receives HSMAI Adrian Award (Hospitality Net)
Doug Carrillo, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Tecton Hospitality and Desires Hotels, has been selected as one of the "Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing" for 2008. The sixth annual list, given by The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI), recognizes the most "best of the best" in the hospitality, travel and tourism industries and the ...
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A budding revival in the land of Obama's roots (International Herald Tribune)
The beleaguered tourism industry of Kenya is hoping that Obamamania will result in a resurgence of visitors to the ancestral homeland of the president-elect.
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Punk, indie bands coming to Fairgrounds (The St. Augustine Record)
The Oldest City has attracted scores of heavy-hitting bands since the St. Augustine Amphitheatre reopened after renovations in 2007.
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The top 10 travel stories of 2008 (KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches)
The world's first bio-diesel flight, airlines merging and cutting perks, and piracy on the high seas were just three of the top stories to affect the world of travel in 2008.
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