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Travel & Tourism Summit
Panelists, (left to right) California Travel Association President and CEO John Severini, Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau Chairman Ellis O'Connor and California Restaurant Association President and CEO Jot Condie discuss the economic impact of tourism and the future outlook for the city’s travel landscape during the 3RD Annual Travel & Tourism Summit at the Sheraton Delfina on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The summit was presented in partnership with neighboring destinations Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Marina del Rey and West Hollywood and the SMCVB.
“This year marks the 30th Anniversary of Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Travel and Tourism Summit is a great opportunity for us to show how far our industry has come,” said Misti Kerns, president and CEO of SMCVB. “Tourism activity supports 14.4 million jobs across the nation and generates more than 1.3 billion dollars to our city. We are thrilled to welcome a diverse group of industry leaders and associations to our summit, who collectively will strengthen the message of how critical tourism is in creating sustainable jobs and a healthy economy.”
During the summit, the results of the 2011 Santa Monica Tourism Economic Impact Study, conducted on a regular basis since 1983, was unveiled. Nominations opened for the Thelma Parks Tourism Spirit Award, which will recognize local hospitality-industry employees for their spirit and exemplary customer service.
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CHILLIN'
Frank Palermo kicks back atop of his 1957 Meyers Manx dune buggy at the Santa Monica beach on Sunday, May 6, 2012.
TANGO
Couples dance the Tango at Santa Monica Beach during the 3rd annual Santa Monica International Tango Holiday, aka The SMITH on Friday, May 4, 2012. The SMITH is a three-day tango dance and music festival held yearly the first weekend of May that offers a weekend of tango workshops and milongas with artists from Buenos Aires and throughout the U.S.
TAKE FIVE
Community Service Workers take a break atop Joyce Kohl’s public art sculpture entitled "Ocean Park Segue" (1988), on Monday, April 30, 2012
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Venice Spring Fling
The Tribal Dance Jams troupe perform at Venice beach during the 2nd annual “Venice Spring Fling” on Saturday, May 12, 2012.
The Magic Bus
The legendary “Further” a 1947 International also known as “The Magic Bus,” is parked at Rose Ave in Venice on Thursday, May 10, 2012. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. With MAGIC TRIP, Gibney and Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey family. They worked with the Film Foundation, HISTORY and the UCLA Film Archives to restore over 100 hours of film and audiotape, and have shaped an invaluable document of this extraordinary piece of American history.
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