SF News Gavin Newsom Trumpets Record California Tourism Spending; Critics Say It’s Just Driven by Inflation California Governor Gavin Newsom climbed atop the Golden Gate Bridge to tout the supposedly record-breaking $150 billion tourism dollars spent statewide in 2023, but cynics point out that may just be because of inflation-driven higher prices.
SF News Take That, Florida! SF Swipes Major Conference From Sunshine State Over Florida’s Anti-Diversity Agenda The National Black Nurses Association has just yanked their annual conference out of Florida and moved it to San Francisco, calling Florida a “a hostile dangerous environment” for Black medical professionals.
Business & Tech SF Loses Google Conference to Las Vegas, But Scores Big AI Conference From ChatGPT Company Google has reneged on its deal to hold the 2024 Google Cloud Next conference at Moscone Center, instead moving the event to Las Vegas, but SF did just score a big AI conference from ChatGPT producer OpenAI.
Business & Tech SF Tourism Board Launches New Ad Campaign to Sell City as Still Quirky and Fun Trying to counter several years of bad national press and a concerted effort by conservatives to single out San Francisco for urban ills that exist in many cities, SF Travel has launched its "largest ever" ad campaign to lure conventioneers and tourists back to town.
SF News SF Tourism Honchos Celebrate a Banner Week, With Dreamforce, Folsom, and Portola Festival Packing Hotels Local tourism industry officials are crowing over the most lucrative week they’ve had in a couple years, and while every weekend won’t have this many events, there is optimism for a booming holiday season.
SF News Pendulum Swings and National Press Decides San Francisco Is Cool Again Suddenly, some editors on high have decided San Francisco is OK again, and still very pretty, and maybe it has something to do with the Presidio Tunnel Tops opening?
SF News A Double-Decker Sightseeing Bus Caught Fire and the Driver Disappeared A double-decker tour bus went up in flames Wednesday night, apparently while traveling south on 101 out of the city, and when CHP arrived on the scene the driver was nowhere to be found.
SF News Big Conferences are Back, as Game Developers Conference Returns to Moscone Center An estimated 10,000 or more video game nerds — including the Wordle guy — have converged upon Moscone Center for the return of the annual Game Developers Conference, though the event is projected to have only about half of its normal attendance.
SF News Mayor London Breed and SF Travel Officials Head on European Tour to Drum Up Tourism San Francisco Mayor London Breed and officials from San Francisco International Airport and the San Francisco Travel Association are headed out on a 10-day tour of the Continent in an effort to combat negative press about SF becoming a hellhole.
SF News Tourists Keep Coming to SF Despite Many Stories About the City Going to Hell Despite reams of articles declaring the death of San Francisco amid sky-high rents, economic inequality, homelessness and open-air drug use, the city's tourism numbers were actually up in 2019.
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: How To Be A Better Tourist Dear Rain, My family and I will be in the area for a little over 24 hours. We live in Austin and we understand tourists taking over your town, so we don't want
SF News Supervisor Farrell Proposes FasTrak System, Reservations For Famous Lombard Street Block Living at a tourist attraction continues to takes its toll on Russian Hill neighbors with houses along the famous one-way crooked section of Lombard Street, and so they continue to demand that something,
SF News Landslides Cut Off Big Sur Tourism, Shut Down Highway 1 For Three Weeks Significant mud- and landslides, including huge boulders and piles of rock, have cut off the community of Big Sur from the world for the second time in six months as a section of
SF News Tourism Dip Expected As Moscone Center Set To Close For Expansion The San Francisco tourism industry, accustomed to recent boom times, is about to shift gears as it prepares for the loss of business generated by the city's largest convention center operation. In April,
SF News Oakland Yet Again Named The Second 'Unfriendliest' City In The Country Oakland has yet another dubious feather to add to its gentrifying cap. According to Condé Nast Traveler, the city across the Bay is still the second "unfriendliest" in the world a title it's
SF News Hearst Office Building At Third And Market Could Become Hearst Hotel As tourism booms in San Francisco with a record 25 million visitors in 2015, the historic Hearst building at Third and Market Streets may seek to capitalize on the trend with a conversion
SF News Record Number Of Tourists Checked Out SF Last Year Cause We're Hot Like That 25 million visitors graced the Fine American City of San Francisco in 2015, marveling at our hills, gaping at our bridges, and in some instances, choking on our stench. The Examiner published the
SF News Super Bowl Brought In $8 Million In SF Hotel Taxes The San Francisco Travel Association this week touted $8.2 million in hotel taxes for San Francisco collected during the controversial Super Bowl 50 of last month. The event of the season was
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Is The 10th Most Instagrammed Place In The World Gloomy sunrise over the city this morning 📷 by @tberolz #sanfrancisco #sunrise #ggbridge #mysf #willjourney A photo posted by Julia Engel (Gal Meets Glam) (@juliahengel) on Dec 2, 2015 at 11:26am PST This
Arts & Entertainment Drone Video Distraction: Fly From Pier 45 To Alcatraz In 2015, the Bird Man of Alcatraz wouldn't mess around with flighty pigeons. He'd have drones. Helping us imagine what that might look like is the above video. Yep, it's over a mile,
Arts & Entertainment Video: The New York Times Spends 36 (Very Rosy) Hours In San Francisco The New York Times travel section is blowing up your local spot. In the latest in their series, the paper spends 36 hours in San Francisco (perhaps all they could afford?) and seems
SF News Another SF Tourist Robbed Of Camera, Also Punched In Face Yet another tourist was robbed of his camera in San Francisco this week in what looks to be a trending crime. Police report that the would-be photographer was walking on Mason Street near
SF News Half of Twin Peaks Blvd. To Go Carless; You Can Decide Which Half The Twin Peaks panoramic lookout point is an iconic place to take visitors and out-of-towners, particularly for those of us way too snobby for Alcatraz or Fisherman’s Wharf. The views up there
SF News 'Lonely Planet' Puts Oakland At #8 On Its Best U.S. Travel List Wedged between Greenville, South Carolina and Duluth, Minnesota on Lonely Planet's list of "Best in the U.S." list for 2015 is Oakland, California, clocking in at number 8. For the record and
SF News Brace: Super Bowl Expected To Draw 1 Million To S.F. Come Super Bowl 50, the city of San Francisco is expected to harbor an estimated 1 million tourists for the annual football gala. And if you thought San Francisco was losing its gay
