Harbor Beach Clean Up for Tourism Week

VISIT OCEANSIDE CELEBRATES NATIONAL TOURISM WEEK WITH BEACH CLEAN-UP AT OCEANSIDE HARBOR AT 8:30 AM WEDNESDAY, MAY 9

National Tourism Week is May 7-13

WHAT:                      

Oceanside Tourism Council's (OTC) Annual Beach Clean-up in Celebration of NationalTourism Week

WHO: 

Visit Oceanside in partnership with the Oceanside Tourism Council

WHEN:                       

Wednesday, May 9 at 8:30 a.m.

WHERE:                     

Oceanside Harbor Beach

BACKGROUND:

Visit Oceanside celebrates National Tourism Week with an annual beach Clean-up. TheOceanside Tourism Council (OTC) has adopted the Oceanside Harbor Beach through I love a Clean San Diego's Adopt a Beach Program.

Sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association, National Tourism Week is May 7-13, 2012. Celebrating the importance of Tourism to our national, local and state economies. The following are some interesting facts:

Last year, over $3 million was generated in hotel tax alone that went into the City ofOceanside's general fund.

Visit Oceanside directly influenced over $28 million in visitor spending to Oceanside, supporting over 600 jobs.

 In San Diego, tourism employs 160,000 people (13% of the county's population) and generated over $7.5 billion in visitor spending.

Travel and tourism generated $1.9 trillion in economic output for the US economy in 2012.

The industry is one of America's largest employers, supporting 14.4 million jobs. Travel and tourism directly generated $124 billion in tax revenue for local, state and federal governments.

Each U.S. household would pay $1,055 more in taxes without the tax revenue generated by the travel and tourism industry.

Direct spending by resident and international travelers in the U.S. averaged $2.2 billion a day, $92.8 million an hour, $1.5 million a minute, and $25,700 a second.

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY:                    

The beach clean-up crew at Oceanside Harbor.

About Visit Oceanside

To assist with every aspect of visitor travel needs, Oceanside is home to one of the state's official California Welcome Centers and the Visit Oceanside Conference and Visitors Bureau. With just one stop, visitors can find local, regional and state maps, purchase discount tickets to major attractions, make hotel reservations or shop for the perfect California keepsake. The Visit Oceanside CVB/California Welcome Center Oceanside is conveniently located just off Interstate 5 at 928 North Coast Highway. For more information, please call (800)350-7873 or visit www.visitoceanside.org.