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The City's Francis Field vote last week was indeed final. The Celtic Festival is safe for now. ...

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The fool-proof guide to recognizing different Irish accents (VIDEO)

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Want to know whether somebody is from the Dublin Pale or the People’s Republic of Cork? Learn all about the dialectal differences in this perfect guide.

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3 days ago

Save the festivals, but save pay attention to St. Augustine’s residents too!

The County Commission is deliberating a related matter Tuesday April 17, Agenda Item 8. Send in your comments by email or in person. www.sjcfl.us/Commissioners/index.aspx#.WtTfH0xFxyQ

Here's what I told them:
St. Augustine is the unquestionable star of St. Johns County tourism.
Pay attention to St. Augustine’s residents!
The rapid increase in tourism over the last few years has caused serious contention.
Change is relentless. We can never go back to “the way it used to be”.
But rapid change raises more issues. Infrastructure doesn’t keep up. People aren’t given a chance to gradually adapt.

The success of the County's tourism promotion is remarkable. And it’s a significant part of the rapid growth equation. The BCC and TDC must allocate a larger portion of total bed-tax funds to satisfy visitor expectations, and to compensate for the demands such growth places on those visitors’ hosts - US. Particularly St. Augustine where the impact is most dramatic. Consider this: tourism does not cause beach erosion, but it does cause infrastructure demand, wear and tear.

Infrastructure: parking, shuttles, paving, sidewalks, way-signs, traffic signs, traffic lights, one way streets, public bathrooms, visitor communications, etc.; as well as diverse and high-quality cultural experiences. These are all things that can satisfy (or disappoint) visitor expectations, especially those “high value visitors” that our lodging industry is so wisely seeking. And expenditures on those kinds of things all justify the use of bed-tax dollars within the Statute’s strict rules.

Similarly, the ACH budget can do more to actually support high quality cultural experiences that satisfy visitor expectations, instead of spending half of the "Cat II" budget on even more advertising just to get them to come here. The "Cat I" budget can handle that fine by itself.

First build a great product and be ready to maintain it - then promote it.

Better investment in all those things will also greatly improve the quality of life for residents, without hurting our number 1 industry.

And a good portion of the money that's needed is there - in the bed tax spending allocation. ...

TOURISM OVERLOAD: Some say it's time to strike a balance in St. Augustine

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For some residents, living in downtown St. Augustine means not leaving home on the weekend.It means carefully planning errands to avoid getting stuck in a

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Irish superstitions to be aware of this Friday the 13th

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Silly or not, it is all in the name of warding off what bad luck might come their way. The Irish are big believers in this kind of superstition - especially on a day like Friday the 13th.

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1 week ago

Spring events saved from blockout period
Commissioners Monday voted to remove from event management policy Section 4, which would have blocked out major city events during spring Bike Week and the fall Biketoberfest.
The vote was 3-2, with commissioners Todd Neville and Leanna Freeman opposed, but Freeman said she'd vote in favor if another section of the proposed policy was addressed. That is Section 10 barring back to back events, which Public Affairs Director Paul Williamson later said can be worked out with event organizers.
The decision followed pressure from some event organizers including Romanza's Albert Syeles and Art Association Director Diane Bradley, who noted its Thanksgiving Arts Festival provides half the association's budget.
Commissioners also decided to stop free parking for motorcycles around the Plaza de la Constitución during Daytona's Bike Week and Biketoberfest.
Defending the original concept of banning any events at Francis Field during the Bike Week periods, Neville, argued, "This is not choosing an outside force over a local event, it's that we can control one, we can't control the other."
Mayor Nancy Shaver said of those major springtime events, "We grandfathered these events for a purpose, that they are really a part of the fabric of our community. They take advantage of the number of people who come here to give back to the community." ...

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