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German and Australian tourists collide on Highway 1

Written on 4 Aug, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

Two white Jeep SUVs — one carrying four German tourists and one carrying an Australian couple — collided on Highway 1 at the south end of San Simeon Wednesday afternoon. All four Germans went to the hospital on what was... (Continue reading)

SLO County renews lodging tax

Written on 25 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

A 2 percent tax on hotel stays along much of San Luis Obispo County’s coastline will remain in place for at least one more year and likely much longer. The tax is also collected at motels, vacation rentals and bed-and-breakfasts.... (Continue reading)

Record breaking year in tourism dollars

Written on 7 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

San Luis Obispo County brought in $1.58 billion in tourism dollars in 2015, a record breaking year with a 4 percent increase in tourism dollars over 2014. [KSBY] Tourism officials are already planning ways to make next years numbers even... (Continue reading)

Makeshift motorhome sparks eight fires in Cayucos

Written on 2 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

A 1954 Greyhound bus that was converted into a motorhome sparked eight fires along Highway 1 in Cayucos Sunday afternoon. The fires burned about 1.1 acres. [KSBY] Shortly before 3 p.m., a person was driving the motorhome on Highway 1... (Continue reading)

Arroyo Grande commission critical of Tompkins’ hotel plan

Written on 2 Dec, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

City planning commissioners are requesting that developer Nick Tompkins redesign a hotel he is planning to build in the Village of Arroyo Grande. The proposed architecture does not fit the character of the Village, according to the planning commission majority.... (Continue reading)

Does California have a hotel bubble?

Written on 18 Aug, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Hotel buyers are spending in record fashion in California this year. [OC Register] Buyers spent $4.4 billion on 174 California hotels in the first half of 2015, according to Atlas Hospitality Group of Irvine. That surpassed the annual total spent... (Continue reading)

Oxnard family ambushed and shot in Mexico

Written on 16 Aug, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Oxnard community members are rallying around a local family after four members were ambushed and shot during a vacation in Mexico. Investigators believe the Mexican drug cartel is behind the shooting, possibly a case of mistaken identity. [Camarillo Acorn] On... (Continue reading)

SLO County creates a tourism district

Written on 11 Jun, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 36 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday to create an agency that will impose fees on lodging businesses in order to raise marketing money for bolstering tourism in the county. [Tribune] When it comes into existence... (Continue reading)

Morro Bay named one of America’s top beach towns

Written on 25 May, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 29 comments

Morro Bay is one America’s 14 best small beach towns, according to the online travel publication Thrillist. “The best place to stop along the Pacific Coast Highway? Morro Bay, where you can take in Morro Rock (aka America’s Gibraltar) or... (Continue reading)

Traveler tested for Ebola in Santa Barbara County

Written on 23 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Doctors are testing and monitoring a traveler who recently returned from one or more countries that experienced an Ebola epidemic. [KSBY] Santa Barbara County health officials say the case is a low risk situation and highly unlikely to be Ebola.... (Continue reading)