{"id":5193,"date":"2011-10-11T14:10:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2011-10-11T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:10:56","slug":"wine-tourism-conference-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/wine-tourism-conference-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Tourism Conference in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there have been International Wine Tourism Conferences, this November will be the first global wine tourism conference to be held on the North American continent. \u00a0Scheduled for November 16-17, 2011 it \u00a0will appeal to many people in the tourism industry both international and national.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 conference website notes it will \u201caddress current industry trends and the issues that impact wine tourism throughout the globe.\u201d Several groups and organizations have joined together to offer this conference. Sponsors include Zephyr Adventures and MartinCalder Productions. MartinCalder Productions is working with Sonoma State University\u2019s Wine Business Institute, Wine Institute of California and the Napa Valley Destination Council.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wine Tourism Conference website this conference will appeal to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wineries that would like to increase the number of visitors to their winery and improve cellar door sales<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Wine and tourism promotion agencies and chambers of commerce<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Companies involved in wine tourism including tour operators, travel agencies, transportation companies, event planners, hotels, and restaurants<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Wine tourism academics from university programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetourismconference.org\/register\">Registration<\/a> is still available online. To checkout the conference, visit the Wine Tourism Conference\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/winetourismconference.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">website<\/span><\/a>. If you are part of the wine tourism industry, be sure to consider attending.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers! Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Wine Tourism Conference in California\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=5193\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there have been International Wine Tourism Conferences, this November will be the first global wine tourism conference to be held on the North American continent. \u00a0Scheduled for November 16-17, 2011 it \u00a0will appeal to many people in the tourism industry both international and national. The 2011 conference website notes it will \u201caddress current industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}