{"id":16464,"date":"2014-05-17T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16464"},"modified":"2014-05-17T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T20:31:55","slug":"we-love-la-and-so-do-aussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/we-love-la-and-so-do-aussies\/","title":{"rendered":"We Love LA, and so do Aussies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/weluvla.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With tourism on the rebound providing more jobs than other sectors, California&#8217;s tourism arm, VisitCalifornia, is focused on capturing as much of the pie as they can attract to the Golden State. The Chinese, Brits and Australians are just a few of the market segments \u00a0that the agency courts regularly and with good reason. Australians choose the U.S. as their preferred destination and California tops their lists of must-see destinations in North America. During the past decade California has been the place to be for approx. half of Aussie travelers, making it our state&#8217;s 4th largest international travel segment. Why should Caroline Beteta,\u00a0President and CEO at California Travel and Tourism Commission, care? Revenue, tourism fees, hotel\u00a0bookings, car rentals &amp; jobs are a few reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1. Australians are here on pleasure trips which means spending time and money to see the sights<br \/>\n2.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/themeparks\/directory.html\"> Theme parks<\/a> are one of the Aussie favorites and California has over 10 popular parks<br \/>\n3. Australian tourists love L.A. and they love to spend money shopping Rodeo, seeing Hollywood, and experiencing the city<br \/>\n4. Australia is a growing market for California tourism and that&#8217;s a trend you can&#8217;t ignore if you are in charge of tourism<\/p>\n<p>The next time you see Australian tourists, be especially kind and give them your insights into special restaurants, attractions and destinations. You&#8217;ll be helping spread the good word about our friendly state!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With tourism on the rebound providing more jobs than other sectors, California&#8217;s tourism arm, VisitCalifornia, is focused on capturing as much of the pie as they can attract to the Golden State. The Chinese, Brits and Australians are just a few of the market segments \u00a0that the agency courts regularly and with good reason. Australians [&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\/16464"}],"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=16464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}