Background, just introduce why we are here today. The hospitality and travel industries are some of the Largest Industries in our city. Just last year, in 2013, San Francisco benefited from a record of 16. 9 million visitors who spent over 9. 4 billion dollars in our city on tourismrelated activity and we only expect that number to continue to grow in the coming years. Hotel tax revenue is up, 8. 1 percent, to 607 Million Dollars and tourism jobs have increased to 3. 8 which is a total of 76,834 jobs. And Hotel Room Rates have also risen, 12. 8 percent to an average of 207 per night. And even though we see all of this growth in the millions of dollars, being spent right here in our city. Some groups are not seeing, or reaping the benefits overwhelmingly these groups have included specifically the African American community. And earlier this year, a coalition of leaders and businesses, governments and industry, and education, all convened, and lodged the citys First Initiative on equity
Thank you. Chair, and supervisor tang, and chair, and cohen, and chiu. We are so excited to be here this morning to present to you what we think is a successful model and we know that we thank you all for your leadership on this issue. And we think that this is a model that can actually work and change the tide and equity and inclusion in this city and in particular with the respect of African Americans to participate in the higher wage and growing industries and also, coming out that this has been a cross racial coalition, and we think that it is a model secondly for that, that it is across a group of stake holders and who are outside of the government. And that have successfully implemented or started the implementation activities for something that is persist ent in the city. And so, we will move to the presentation. And the general structure that supervisor cohen mentioned is that i want to give the different information on the contributers in the background and we will give a litt
Hearing, and i want to thank, supervisor cohen for her leadership on this matter, this is definitely very important issue, and i know that there is a number of leaders here from San Francisco, black chamber of commerce, and the folks from sftravel, and working together, and i think that we could make sure that the industry is opening its doors to the African Americans for Employment Opportunities and other things that exist, all over. And thanks, for the leadership and i am looking forward to the presentation, and looking forward to the feedback on how we can Work Together to make this city more open and inclusive to the African American, and president chiu, would you like to say a few words thank you. I also want to say that i am happy and i want to thank supervisor cohen for calling this hearing, this is actually a topic that we have discussed a number of times over the past year. My district includes our major Tourism Industries and supervisor said, we talking about an over 16 milli
Wanted to think about the out reach to more diverse job applicants and we worked to kick off a job fair in the day view and the plaza and we are continuing to do these out reaches throughout the city and but this is just one of many ideas that i know have been discussed and we need to do more and we look forward to the conversation that we have. I am giving out the report. Thank you. Chair, and supervisor tang, and chair, and cohen, and chiu. We are so excited to be here this morning to present to you what we think is a successful model and we know that we thank you all for your leadership on this issue. And we think that this is a model that can actually work and change the tide and equity and inclusion in this city and in particular with the respect of African Americans to participate in the higher wage and growing industries and also, coming out that this has been a cross racial coalition, and we think that it is a model secondly for that, that it is across a group of stake holders
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