Greater Palm Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau: Tourism is back eturbonews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eturbonews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Short-term vacation renters could see a new charge on their bill starting July 1st
Starting on Thursday, July 1st, anyone staying at a short-term vacation rental here in the Coachella Valley could see a new, additional charge on their bill.
The charge would represent approximately 1% of the total cost of the stay, and would show up on a bill as a “Tourism Business Improvement District (TBID) Assessment.
News Channel 3’s Madison Weil spoke with the Greater Palm Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau to learn more about the new financial policy.
What is a Tourism Business Improvement District (TBID)?
“TBID is a common source of funding that lodging businesses use to create stable dedicated funding for marketing and promotion of a destination,” said Davis Meyer, Director of Partnership, Greater Palm Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST
Unforgivable, the story of a gang member serving time in Salvordoran prison who is gay, earned the Greater Palm Springs CVB Best of the Festival Award announced June 27 at the closing ceremonies of the Palm Springs International ShortFest at the Palm Springs Cultural Center.
The film received one of five Academy Award qualifying awards while awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 were presented to the winners selected from the 295 shorts films that screened.
The winners by category included:
Greater Palm Springs CVB Best of the Festival Award - Winner received $5,000 cash prize courtesy of the Greater Palm Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau. Jury: Bérangère Mc Neese (actor, director, and screenwriter - 2020 ShortFest award winner in this category); Ania Trzebiatowska (programmer at the Sundance Film Festival).
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