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The virtual meeting will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24. To attend, RSVP to McGuire’s office here. California’s hospitality and tourism sectors are some of the largest economic drivers for the state. Before the global pandemic hit, more than 1.2 million Californians earned their livelihoods in hospitality. Visitors spent $145 billion at California businesses in 2019, generating $12.3 billion in state and local taxes. The impacts of COVID-19 have been absolutely devastating for hospitality workers and the thousands of small businesses who rely on a healthy tourism economy. More than half of California’s 1.2 million hospitality workers have lost their jobs and the state has lost over $70 billion in visitor spending. ....