{"id":14953,"date":"2014-01-04T02:32:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T10:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14953"},"modified":"2014-01-04T02:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T10:32:54","slug":"tourism-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/tourism-is-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel is UP Across the Board in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/endev2.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Though we&#8217;ll eventually become space travelers heading for other planets, a defunded space program has helped draw visitors to see the Endeavour at California Science Center in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti along with Los Angeles Tourism &amp; Convention Board are set to announce L.A.&#8217;s record-breaking tourism numbers for 2013 in front of California Science Center&#8217;s Space Shuttle Endeavour next week. In just over a year since the Endeavour arrived at the museum, the retired Space Shuttle craft has helped raise the most money ever for the museum, netting $1.5 million at a single fund-raising party for the vehicle. (californiasciencecenter.org)<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/shop-costa-mesa-fam-trip\/\">isn&#8217;t alone<\/a> in its positive outlook for tourism, and though gains are expected to be modest in 2014, the California tourism industry believes there will be a slow and steady increase through 2016.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demand in Asia and Latin America are driving international visitation, while European demand stagnates.<\/li>\n<li>Eurozone finally out of recession, but the road to recovery will be long &amp; bumpy.<\/li>\n<li>Top domestic visitors come from Arizona, then Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Utah and Colorado.<\/li>\n<li>2013\u00a0hotel\u00a0occupancy increased fastest in Sacramento, Riverside, and Oakland.<\/li>\n<li>Hotel price increases were greatest in San Jose,\u00a0San Francisco, and Oakland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though we&#8217;ll eventually become space travelers heading for other planets, a defunded space program has helped draw visitors to see the Endeavour at California Science Center in Los Angeles.\u00a0 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti along with Los Angeles Tourism &amp; Convention Board are set to announce L.A.&#8217;s record-breaking tourism numbers for 2013 in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}