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| Jun.5 |
San Francisco |
Hotels, Improvements For Alcatraz The federal agency that manages the former prison is pushing for a series of improvements to attract more visitors to the landmark
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| May.29 |
San Francisco |
Visitors to SF in 2007 set spending record| More than 16 million visitors came to San Francisco in 2007 and spent $8.2 billion, both all-time highs for tourism in the city | |
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| May.22 |
SFO |
SFO expects holiday travel to jump 5% International Airport expects its Memorial Day weekend passenger count to jump 5% over last year.
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| Mar.6 |
SF Downtown |
Sex assault in hotel A hotel employee allegedly was breaking into a female guest's room overnight, and sexually assaulting her
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| Feb.28 |
South of Market |
Huge InterContinental Hotel opened  Map| The InterContinental San Francisco, the largest hotel to open in the city in nearly 20 years, hopes to serve Moscone crowds. The 32-story glass tower features 550 rooms, ... | |
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| Feb.24 |
SF Downtown |
InterContinental Hotel to open $5,000-a-night Presidential Suite; The Mozambique walnut furnishings in the hotel's 550 rooms
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| Feb.22 |
San Francisco |
Upbeat S.F. tourism outlook The hotels will be pushing an 80% occupancy rate this year and the thinking within the bullish tourism industry is that we will dodge a rece...
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| Dec.20 |
SF Downtown |
Cable cars running after closures The power cables were damaged and cable car service came to a halt at around 8:50 a.m.
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House committee chair lambasts Yahoo
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| Jun.30 |
Menlo Park |
3 Offices Holding Passport Fairs In light of longer than usual processing times for U.S. passports, 3 Bay Area post offices are holding passport fairs
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| Apr.7 |
SF Downtown |
Indian chain to buy Campton Place Hotel
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| Feb.6 |
SF Downtown |
Queen Mary 2 Sets Sail From San Francisco The massive cruise liner left for Hawaii, bringing an end to one of the riskiest passages in modern maritime history
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| Feb.4 |
SF Downtown |
Queen Mary 2 Arrives The largest and grandest ocean cruise liner, which towers 200 feet above water, is making its first visit ever to SF
| The ship is 1,132 feet long; 17 decks equal the height of a 23-story building. The mammoth passed beneath the Golden Gate bridge, clearing the bottom of the span by 27 feet before a nail-bitingly tight tour of the Bay
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| Sep.25 |
SF Downtown |
Alcatraz Ferry Service Changes Hands Some union workers who used to drive the ferry weren't hired by this nonunion operator, Hornblower Tours
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| Sep.23 |
San Francisco |
Hotel workers contract ratified
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| Sep.12 |
San Francisco |
Tentative Agreement In Hotel Dispute Union leaders representing 4,200 workers announced that a tentative agreement was reached on a contract
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| Aug.24 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel wokers vote to authorize strike 93 percent of housekeepers, line cooks, food servers who voted tonight cast 'yes' votes
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Labor Protesters Greet Students
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SF Downtown |
Weak Dollar Means More Tourists In S.F. Tourism to the city is stronger this summer than anytime since the dot-com bust and 9/11 attacks
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| May.13 |
San Francisco |
Nearly 10% More Tourist Dollars Spent New statistics reveal the number of tourists visiting San Francisco has risen by 4.1% compared to 2004
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| Apr.7 |
SF Downtown |
Chicago firm buys Westin St. Francis
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Google Need Not Turn Over Records
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| Feb.26 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel Occupancy Rate Increases
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| Jan.29 |
East Palo Alto |
4 Seasons Hotel Opens A new Four Seasons hotel's estimated $3 million in annual taxes also will double the city's tax base
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Google censors itself for China
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| Dec.10 |
San Francisco |
Hotels rebuff unions
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| Oct.15 |
South of Market |
Huge hotel set to rise by Moscone
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| Sep.13 |
San Francisco |
2 hotels give in to union
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| Jul.9 |
SF Downtown |
Unions Urging Conventions to Not Meet SF biggest hotels could be out $50 million in lost business because some opted to hold their conferences out of town
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| Jul.1 |
SF Downtown |
Historic Sir Francis Drake has new owner
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| Mar.26 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel Dispute Makes City Less Competitive
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| Mar.17 |
SF Downtown |
Holiday Inn Downtown to become Hilton
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| Mar.16 |
San Francisco |
Tourism turning around
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| Nov.20 |
San Francisco |
Hotel employees to return to work| About 4,000 maids, bellhops, cooks and other will return to their jobs while contract negotiations continue | |
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| Nov.10 |
San Francisco |
Hotel labor negotiations without resolution
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| Oct.26 |
SF Downtown |
Hotels refuse to end labor lockout The operators of 14 hotels are facing a deadline and an ultimatum from SF mayor
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| Oct.13 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel strike ends, workers locked-out Thousands of workers ended a 2-week strike but remained off the job as operators of the 14 hotels imposed a lock-out
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SF Downtown |
Fairmont workers report back to work
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| Oct.5 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel operators agree to extend lockout Operators of 14 downtown hotels involved in a work stoppage voted to lock out employees at 4 of the hotels
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| Oct.4 |
San Francisco |
Hotel Strike and Lockout Goes Strong
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| Oct.3 |
San Francisco |
London Cabbies Ride SF Streets
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| Sep.29 |
San Francisco |
Hotel workers begin two-week strike| Cooks, housekeepers, bellboys at 4 hotels began a noisy action that could spread to other venues and discourage visitors | | |
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| Sep.22 |
SF Downtown |
Cable car shutdown
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| Nov.11 |
San Francisco |
SF Named Best City in the World to Visit
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| Sep.21 |
San Francisco |
Tourism on hold
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