Sailing away.Ah, Long Beach. Scrambling to boost its place as a tourist destination A tourist destination is a city, town or other area the economy of which is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from tourism. It may contain one or more tourist attractions or visitor attractions and possibly some "tourist traps". , the city did itself no good when City Manager Gerald Miller canceled a major pubic pubic /pu·bic/ (pu´bik) pertaining to or situated near the pubes, the pubic bone, or the pubic region. pu·bic adj. 1. festival scheduled for Oct. 3-5 ShoreFest, a free event, was supposed to include six separate festivals throughout the city, including an air show featuring the U.S. Navy Blue Angels at the Long Beach Airport, sailing demonstrations at the Queen Mary Queen Mary, Queen Marie, or Queen Maria may refer to: Queens Britain England
LLC - Logical Link Control , a partnership that included Queensway Bay's Developers Diversified Realty Corp., organized the $3 million event. In comments to the city council on Sept. 23, Miller said event organizers had not prepared enough for public safety, transportation, parking and logistical issues. David Jacobson, media relations director of ShoreFest, called the cancellation inexplicable in·ex·pli·ca·ble adj. Difficult or impossible to explain or account for. in·ex  pli·ca·bil . He said city officials dumped their own commitments last minute onto event organizers. "Why did they pass the parking and traffic issues onto us when they manage their own city?" he said. |
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