San Diego’s two post-season college football games combined to produce an economic impact of $41.5 million for the San Diego region in 2007, according to a study conducted by the San Diego State University Center for Hospitality and Tourism Research. The games are organized by the San Diego Bowl Game Association.
The UCLA Anderson Forecast San Diego Economic Outlook for 2008-09 spun a happier tale of a slumped housing market that will avoid a full-blown recession not only locally, but nationwide.
Passport Restaurants Inc. (Pink Sheets: PSPR), a restaurant holding company, has changed its name to Pacific Restaurant Holdings Inc.
The transfer of the lease for the planned $175 million Spinnaker Hotel just south of the expanded Convention Center was unanimously approved by the Board of Port Commissioners Tuesday.
Charles Kaufman, owner of San Diego’s Bread and Cie, said he could buy a 50-pound bag of flour for just $8 a few years ago. Now, he pays $29 for the same amount.
W Hotels Worldwide, a global lifestyle brand with 21 properties all over the world, announced this week that Thom Filicia, style icon and founder of Thom Filicia Inc. (TFI), has begun work on the renovation of the W San Diego property.
This year, The California Welcome Center Oceanside, in partnership with the Oceanside Tourism Council, will celebrate the 25th Annual National Tourism Week from May 10 to May 18.
With the Sea & Air Parade set to kick off this year’s Fleet Week San Diego 10:30 a.m. Saturday, this year’s opening weekend, boosted by the addition of the Red Bull Air Race World Series event, is set to be one of the biggest starts to Fleet Week ever.
The Adams Avenue Business Association will hold its annual "Taste of Adams Avenue" from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., June 22, with a variety of samples of house specials, entrees and desserts from restaurants along Adams Avenue.
In April, a Conde Nast Traveler reader poll named the recently renovated Spa at Rancho Bernardo Inn as the number one resort spa in North America.
