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March 31, 2013 | 
Author San Francisco Travel Association Releases 2012 Economic Impact Figures
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 30, 2013
The San Francisco Travel Association reported today that San Francisco welcomed 16.51 million visitors in 2012, an increase of one percent from 2011. These visitors spent $ 8.93 billion in 2012, up 5.5 percent from the previous year. The data was presented during the eighth annual Northern California Visitor Industry Outlook & Marketing Conference today at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.
“Visitor spending reached the highest level ever in 2012,” said Joe D’Alessandro, San Francisco Travel president and CEO. “The total number of visitors is climbing steadily as well.”
The tourism industry generated $ 562 million in taxes for the City of San Francisco, up 6.7 percent from the previous year. The number of jobs supported by tourism rose 3.6 percent to 74,009 jobs in 2012, with an annual payroll of $ 2.18 billion, an increase of 6.2 percent.
In 2012, there was an average of 131,128 visitors in San Francisco each day. Visitor spending equated to $ 24.46 million daily (including spending related to meetings and conventions).
Convention bookings were at 48 percent of goal at midyear and are on target to achieve the annual goal of 2,105,500 booked room nights which is a five percent increase over last year. Six conventions in San Francisco have received record breaking attendance in the past six months, continuing a trend that has been tracked since 1998. The likelihood of holding a well-attended event is a significant attraction for meeting planners considering San Francisco.
Among the many things that will keep the momentum going for San Francisco’s tourism industry are:
The Bay Lights, a fine art piece installed on the western span and viewable from San Francisco and points north. The March 5 launch of the lights was covered by media around the world. Measuring 1.8-miles-long and 500-feet-high, the high-tech light sculpture design features 25,000 individually programmable, energy-efficient LED lights mounted on the bridge’s vertical cables. The Bay Lights will remain on the bridge for two years and is projected to add $ 97 million to the local economy. Learn more at http://www.thebaylights.org.
On April 17, 2013, the new Exploratorium, San Francisco’s internationally acclaimed museum of sciences, art and human perception, will open on Piers 15 and 17, located on San Francisco’s historic northern waterfront at Embarcadero and Green streets. The new museum will feature 150 new exhibits, a Bay observatory, outdoor gallery and free civic space. For information visit http://www.exploratorium.edu.
The America’s Cup will bring sailing enthusiasts and media attention from around the world for a series of events:
The Louis Vuitton Cup, the America’s Cup Challenger Series on Jul. 4-Aug. 30, 2013.
The Red Bull Youth America’s Cup, open to national teams of sailors aged 19-23 on Sept. 1-4, 2013.
The America’s Cup Finals between the winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the America’s Cup Challenger Series, and the defending ORACLE TEAM USA on Sept. 7-21, 2013. Learn more at http://www.americascup.com.
To help keep San Francisco’s message in front of the leisure travelers that make up 54 percent of the total visitors (vacationers and weekend getaways combined), San Francisco Travel works with strategic partners including American Express®, California Academy of Sciences, CityPASS, Levi’s, Wells Fargo, Pier 39, BART and Amtrak to develop integrated marketing campaigns to increase visitation to San Francisco and enhance visitor engagement in market. In March, San Francisco Travel launched a hotel promotion offering visitors up to 40 percent off their hotel stay, and a $ 50 gift card when two or more nights were booked. The promotion will run through June 30 and can be booked exclusively through the sanfrancisco.travel/stay website.
San Francisco Travel continues its marketing efforts targeting gay and lesbian (LGBT) travelers, a key visitor segment for San Francisco. San Francisco Travel’s gay travel microsite, titled “49 Hours of SF: Out & About,” (http://www.sanfrancisco.travel/lgbt/) offers LGBT focused itineraries, and an “Out with the Locals” section featuring San Francisco residents who provide “insider tips” on what to see and do in San Francisco. GayCities, American Express, and Kimpton Hotels are official sponsors of the campaign. A 2010 survey by Community Marketing, Inc. shows San Francisco to be the #2 overall destination of choice in America for LGBT travelers.
Dine About Town, the annual restaurant promotion developed by San Francisco Travel Association, is celebrating its 12th year in 2013. The program generates an estimated $ 3 million in additional revenue to the city’s restaurants. The second half of the 2013 program will take place June 1-15 with more than 100 restaurants participating.
The San Francisco Travel Association is a private, not-for-profit organization that markets the city as a leisure, convention and business travel destination. With more than 1,500 partner businesses, San Francisco Travel is one of the largest membership-based tourism promotion agencies in the country. The San Francisco Travel business offices are located at 201 Third St., Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103. San Francisco Travel also operates the Visitor Information Center at Hallidie Plaza, 900 Market St. at the corner of Powell and Market streets. For more information, call 415-974-6900 or visit http://www.sanfrancisco.travel.
For an insider’s perspective, join more than 500,000 people who follow San Francisco Travel on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/onlyinsf and more than 100,000 who follow “OnlyinSF” on Twitter at http://twitter.com/onlyinsf.
American Express® is the official Card partner of the San Francisco Travel Association.
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) offers non-stop flights to more than 31 international points on 30 international carriers. The Bay Area’s largest airport connects non-stop with 75 cities in the U.S. on 15 domestic airlines. For up-to-the-minute departure and arrival information, airport maps and details on shopping, dining, cultural exhibitions, ground transportation and more, visit flysfo.com. Follow SFO on twitter.com/flysfo and facebook.com/flysfo.
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Celebrity Dentist and Best Seller Author Dr. Emily Letran, has just been Nationally Featured in CBS Money Watch, The LA Daily News, and The San Francisco Chronicle
Monrovia, CA (PRWEB) December 20, 2012
Celebrity Dentist Emily Letran, is a sought after family and cosmetic dentists in Southern California, who has just been nationally featured in CBS Money Watch, The Los Angeles Daily News, and The San Francisco Chronicle. “Dr. Emily.” as her patients affectionately refer to her, is also a best selling co-author of the book titled “Out Front: Business Building Strategies from Frontline Entrepreneurs.”
Out Front: Business Building Strategies from Frontline Entrepreneurs feature the country’s foremost business experts and thought leaders revealing their top secret break-through action plans. In it, readers will learn how to market their business in new innovative ways that will deliver revolutionary results. Most importantly, readers will find out how to put themselves “Out Front” – and make sure they stay there. As a dedicated patient advocate and champion for preserving the “human touch” in the dental healthcare profession, Celebrity Dentist Emily Letran was asked to contribute a touching story called “Priceless Smiles.” It shows how discovering a deeper purpose for your business can unite your team and create lifetime fans.
On the day of release, Out Front, reached best-seller status in five Amazon.com categories – The book reached best-seller status in the Direct Marketing, Environmental Economics, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Small Business & Entrepreneurship categories.
Dr. Emily Letran is a family and cosmetic dentist who owns three multi-specialty group practices in Southern California. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from UC Riverside (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She is a graduate of UCLA School of Dentistry (Dean’s Apollonian Scholarship) and received her Master of Science in Oral Biology from UCLA at the same time. After graduation she participated in the General Practice Residency at Loma Linda VA Medical Center in Loma Linda, California. and a mini-residency at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in Downey, California., where she attained additional training in treating geriatric and medically compromised patients.
As a dedicated contributor to her community, Dr. Letran annually provides over $ 27,000 in free dental services to those in need through her Free Day of Dentistry events, and most recently announced her support of The HOME Foundation’s 2013 Dream Home Giveaway.
About Emily Letran:
As a mother of three, Dr. Letran creatively balances work, family life, after-school life and her personal life as a growing entrepreneur. She continuously takes courses in clinical dentistry, practice management and marketing, striving to improve her skills to better serve patients. Her favorite activities include reading, writing, and “hanging out” with her three children – whether playing tennis, watching Netflix or window-shopping at the mall.
For Dentist Emily Letran, sees it an honor and privilege to be part of her patients’ lives. As she watches kids growing up, grandparents getting old, the passing of spouses, the courage of the people left behind, individuals going through tough times like job loss or marital separation, she is reminded that the most important thing in life are the relationships we build with other human beings. Dr. Emily is proud to be a part of these relationships with her dental patients.
Dentist Emily Letran’s has the unique ability to connected with her patients and calm the occasional extra nervous or anxious visitor. “We realize that even though dental care has come a long way in terms of patient comfort, there are still those with concerns and fears. Dental care should not be an unpleasant experience so we provide a full array of options for those patients. We offer several techniques to help you relax so please ask us about the different methods we offer,” says Dr. Emily.
Dr. Emily Letran’s dental practice has primarily grown from patient referrals. “Because our patients feel genuinely cared for, they often refer their friends and loved ones. We are proud of the confidence our patients have placed in us, and we don’t take that responsibility lightly,” says Dr. Emily. Those who are looking for a new dentist can be confident in the level of care Dr. Emily and her staff will provide. To see Dr. Emily’s happy and satisfied patient testimonial videos, visit here website http://www.CosmeticDentistMonrovia.com/about-our-office/patient-testimonials/ , or one of her three convenient locations:
Foothill Dental Center
837 W Foothill Blvd
Monrovia CA 91016
626-305-5722
http://www.CosmeticDentistMonrovia.com
Mountain View Dental Group
4639 North Peck Road
El Monte CA 91732
626-444-9281
http://www.MyElMonteDentist.com
Universal Family Dental Practice
10012 Garvey Avenue
El Monte, CA 91733
626-433-1300
http://www.MyElMonteDentist.com
Dr. Emily Letran
Letran (at) EmilyLetranDDS (dot) com
626.305.5722
“We are Proud to Support The HOME Foundation:
About The HOME Foundation:
The Helping Others Means Everything Foundation, or The HOME Foundation, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping our Family of Charities. Frankie Verdugo, President of The HOME Foundation, wants to help as many worthy charities as possible as they struggle during these tough economic times. Frankie Verdugo helps raise funds through luxury dream home raffles, home giveaways, prizes, and high profile celebrity events in Hollywood… “Our mission is to help charities reach their fundraising goals and to bring awareness to their praiseworthy causes.” Please visit our 2013 Dream Home Raffle Giveaway on http://www.facebook.com/HOMEFoundationRaffle.
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Microsoft Announces New Little Organization Specialist In San Francisco
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 25, 2005
Microsoft Corp. today announced TechSoEasy has turn into the initial Modest Organization Specialist San Francisco that specializes exclusively in Modest Enterprise Server solutions for companies with less than 25 workers. To attain this new designation, TechSoEasy has demonstrated expertise in preparing and developing solutions for tiny companies. As part of the Small Enterprise Specialist Community, TechSoEasy will receive a wealthy set of rewards from Microsoft, which includes access to training particularly developed for the modest-company business,.
“TechSoEasy is really pleased with our status as a Modest Business Specialist in San Francisco,” stated Jeffrey B. Kane, principle of the TechSoEasy Microsoft practice, “For our tiny business customers, this unique designation adds another aspect to our Microsoft Small Company Server remedy practice and extends the value we bring to our client relationships in the Bay Area.”
The Modest Enterprise Specialist Community, available as a competency-like designation as part of the Microsoft® Partner Program, was developed in response to input from clients and partners that expressed a need to develop less difficult connections that enable tiny-business clients to swiftly and simply identify technology partners very best suited to support them.
“Tiny companies are searching for partner organizations that realize their special enterprise wants,” stated Jon Witty, Northern California Area General Manager, Microsoft Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partner Group. “With resources like the Modest Company Specialist Community and the partner locator tool on the Microsoft Small Organization Center Internet internet site, it will be much less complicated for modest businesses in the San Francisco Bay Location to identify nearby partners that are finest able to address their specific requirements. We are confident this providing will assist TechSoEasy reach its full potential by creating far more visibility, opportunity and demand in the neighborhood small-company segment.”
As 1 of the requirements for attaining Small Organization Specialist status, Mr. Kane had to pass Microsoft’s Tiny Organization Sales and Marketing Skills Assessment, developed to test the company’s understanding of the dynamics and dependencies of the little-enterprise market, as well as the value to modest company of numerous software program solutions, which includes Windows® XP Skilled, Microsoft Office 2003 and Windows Little Organization Server 2003. In addition, he also had to pass a certification exam that measures the ability to design and implement solutions for the modest and medium-sized business by using Windows Tiny Enterprise Server 2003 and the Windows Server System™.
The Tiny Company Specialist Community was announced earlier this month at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2005.
TechSoEasy, based in San Francisco, was founded in 2004 shortly after Microsoft released Modest Business Server 2003 in order to support any tiny business of much less than 25 employees realize their full potential.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that assist men and women and businesses recognize their full potential.
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