My Las Vegas adventure story appears in the latest issue of PAX Magazine.
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For PAXnewsWest.com: Visit San Jose highlights wine and tech tourism in Vancouver
Representatives of Visit San Jose met with travel media in Vancouver last week for a wine-themed dinner to highlight the region's unique tourism opportunities as a top-notch wine region on the doorstep of Silicon Valley.
Over glasses of award-winning wine from Ridge Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains, PAX spoke with Laura Chmielewski, Visit San Jose's vice president of marketing and communications, about this forward-looking Northern California destination…
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For the Vancouver Courier: Street art goes mainstream in Houston, Texas
They say that everything's bigger in Texas.
In Houston, that's certainly true of the hats, the boots and the servings of barbecue. But the saying also applies to an unexpected public art program that's taking over the streets of downtown. Recently, 100 international artists transformed 20,000 square feet of wall space into city-sanctioned street art for the second annual Houston Urban Experience (HUE) Mural Festival. Add that to the 25 walls painted for the inaugural festival last year, and it's clear that there's a Texas-sized appetite for street art in H-Town…
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News reporting for REW.ca
I've recently wrapped up a two-week stint covering a staff vacation at REW.ca, the online arm of Real Estate Weekly. Here are the stories:
- A Quarter of Canadian Home Buyers Plan to Buy Alone: Survey
- Action Needed to Increase Housing Affordability: Reports
- Vancouver Home Prices Up Yearly but Down Quarterly: Survey
- BC Home Sales Down 21.8% From Record Set Last March: BCREA
- BC Green Party Plans Major PTT Changes, Expanded Foreign Buyer Tax
- Vancouver One of Canada's Best Cities to Buy Real Estate: Study
- 36% of BC Residents Expect Home Prices to Rise this Year: RBC Poll
- Spring to Bring 4,500 New Presale Condo Units to Lower Mainland Market: MLA Advisory
- Metro Vancouver Calls for "Urgent Overhaul†of BC's Property Tax System
For PAXnewsWest.com: Travel Nevada showcases a state’s worth of stories in Vancouver
Travel Nevada welcomed about 70 travel agents and media to a Vancouver networking reception last week, where they had the chance to meet with 12 partner organizations representing tourism opportunities in the Silver State.
"The partners are here to raise awareness of things people don't know about,†Chris Moran, Travel Nevada's public relations specialist, told PAX. "We're hoping people give Nevada another look. We think the state as a whole is a good place to visit – we're eager to show it off.â€
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For Hootsuite: How to Use UTM Parameters to Track Social Media Success
Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of social is still the biggest challenge for social media marketers in North America, according to eMarketer. Perhaps it's not surprising, then, that their second-biggest challenge is securing budget and resources. After all, if you can't show the ROI, where's the motivation to make the investment in the first place?
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For PAXnewsWest.com: Visit Dallas celebrates new Air Canada YVR–DFW route
Visit Dallas met with Vancouver travel media yesterday to highlight new developments in the city and celebrate the launch of the new Air Canada direct flight to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport from YVR. Key to their message was that Dallas has more to offer than just what you've seen on TV.
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For Hitched: Traditional Chic
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For Hitched: Love on the Lake
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For PAX Magazine: Sea, Smoke and Fire: The Ancient Seafood Traditions of Ise-Shima, Japan
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