The SoMa landmark is slated for an ambitious expansion that will claim new space underground and possibly entice more high-profile — and high-spending — conventions to come to San Francisco. Over the past 30 years, the city-owned Moscone Convention Center has helped turn the once-gritty South of Market neighborhood into a red-hot destination. Almost 1 million conventioneers each year visit the sprawling center. Read More
After an extensive career in hotel management, the Sacramento native and president and managing director of Nob Hill Properties was named chairman of the San Francisco Travel Association for this fiscal year.
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Grants for the Arts is celebrating its 50th anniversary next month. Who knew that what was considered “an alien and controversial concept” in 1961, according to the Archives for the Performing Arts, would not only transform the arts and cultural landscape of San Francisco but also become a model for the funding of the arts from coast to coast? Read More
School’s out.
No matter how old you are, those words still have the power to evoke some powerful feelings and memories, don’t they? Summer stretched ahead — an endless blank canvas and you were going to create a masterpiece of fun for the next three months. It was like recess, but it lasted a lot longer. Read More
San Francisco will be selling its biggest industry — tourism — to an international audience of tour operators and travel agents at a trade show this week that local officials hope will generate a flood of cash from overseas for The City’s struggling economy. Read More
International Pow Wow, produced by the U.S. Travel Association, is the American tourism industry’s largest marketplace. Held since 1969, Pow Wow promotes the host city as well as international travel to the U.S. by providing participants a venue in which to showcase and sell their U.S. travel products and services to premier international buyers.
Tomorrow it’s our turn.
From Saturday through Wednesday, San Francisco is the host city for Pow Wow. Read More
San Francisco’s tourism leaders hailed a 2010 increase in visitors and spending revealed in a survey released Tuesday, but concerns remain over hotel worker strikes hampering The City’s top moneymaking industry.
Leonard Hoops, the executive director of the San Francisco Travel Association, said the “labor cloud” that hangs over The City continues to threaten the tourism sector, which remains fragile. Read More
Toni Knorr is the board of directors chairwoman of the San Francisco Travel Association. Knorr has a keen interest in The City’s tourism industry as the general manager of the St. Regis hotel, 125 Third St.Who has been the biggest inspiration in your life? My mother: total can-do attitude about life, with a very charming, curious nature.Where do you find motivation? Read More
