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“Every day I’m on the phone with someone trying to convince them to not cancel and take their business to another state,” said Steve Goodling, President and CEO of the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau.
California State Senator McGuire Along With Broad Based Bipartisan Coalition, Introduces Bill To Get Tourism Industry Back To Work Published: Tuesday, 02 February 2021 05:56
$45 million one-time funding will get hundreds of thousands of Californians back to work and hospitality businesses opened safely
February 2, 2021 - Sacramento, CA – California’s travel and hospitality industry is one of the largest economic drivers for the state. Before COVID-19, more than 1.2 million California workers
earned their livelihoods in hospitality, and visitors spent $145 billion annually at California businesses, generating $12.3 billion in state and local tax revenues.
The coronavirus has had an especially devastating impact on California’s travel and tourism industry. Since last March, more than half of those 1.2 million hospitality workers lost their jobs, California lost $78.8 billion in visitor spending, and thousands of businesses have struggled to keep their doors open, e