The Russ Room and other venues in Sacramento are preparing to turn on the lights for shows after Sacramento County's reopening guidelines were relaxed by moving into the orange tier.
A sharp decrease in visitors to San Joaquin County meant a 55.1% decrease in direct travel spending in 2020, according to the organization Visit Stockton. Even in Stockton, alone, you re talking about almost $190 million in visitor spending that we lost, Wes Rhea, the CEO of Visit Stockton, said.Rhea said the San Joaquin County economy will need visitors from outside the county s borders to help in its financial recovery. We got to bring our visitor economy back so that we can support our local businesses, through the visitor economy, Rhea said.He adds that he s encouraging visitors even if they re just dropping by. We re expecting a lot of drop-ins at our hotels, in our restaurants, and our gas stations, and our retail, just from this big movement of road trippers this summer, Rhea said.Road trippers and visitors may able to help business owners such as Chef James Williams, who has managed to fuse his passion with talent. I really feel like I do have a gift for this so I w
Tier Status- Calaveras and Tuolumne remain in the Orange Tier of the State’s Blueprint for a safer economy. Mariposa shifted into the Yellow Tier last week on May 25th. The State released this week’s Blueprint update today with data for the week ending May 22nd. Tuolumne County’s Case Rate decreased slightly from 3.0 to 2.7, and the Test Positivity Rate is 1.4 from 1.6 last week. Calaveras is at a 3.9 Case Rate from 4.2 and has a Test Positivity Rate of 3.0 from a 4.2 percent, Mariposa remains at a 1.6 Case Rate and a Test Positivity Rate of 1.0 from 1.6 percent. More details on tiers are on our COVID page here.
San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties remain in the Orange Tier of the California reopening blueprint. Santa Barbara County health officials say they are still trying to get their county into the less restrictive yellow tier,