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NJTIA
Are you in the tourism industry? NJTIA members include every aspect of the $38 billion tourism industry in the state — and we promote and serve every aspects of the industry.
Among our members are the Star-Ledger, the New Jersey Restaurant Association, and the New Jersey Campground Owners Association.
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NJTIA
The tourism conference for professionals who are transforming the landscape of travel through technology and marketing. The conference will be held on June 8-9 at the Sofitel Philadelphia.
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NJ.com
Members of the New Jersey congressional delegation asked Transportation Security Administration Administrator Peter Neffenger to take steps to reduce wait times at Newark Airport security screening checkpoints.
The lawmakers, led by U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-10th Dist.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, expressed concern that airline passengers had to wait more than 60 minutes to get through the checkpoints, and sought written updates on what TSA was going to reduce those times.
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Trump Taj Mahal
From fun-filled stays to family-friendly getaways, Taj Mahal is ready to make your summer sizzle with vacation packages that combine unique experiences with valuable savings.
"Taj Mahal has partnered with the area's most popular attractions to create vacation packages everyone can enjoy. With a beautiful free beach and the world-famous boardwalk, Atlantic City is the perfect place to soak up the summer," said Tony Rodio, President and CEO of Tropicana Entertainment.
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Press of Atlantic City
Cape May County saw record tourism spending last year — $6 billion buoyed by good weather and low gas prices, according to numbers released recently.
The county's annual tourism conference reported improved economic news, at least for state tourism, for the sixth-straight year. Tourism Director Diane Wieland said spending grew by 4 percent in Cape May County, generating an average $1.5 million in state and local taxes every day of the year.
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Cape May Brewing Company
American Craft Beer Week — a celebration of the country's craft beer industry and the 110,000 jobs it creates nationwide — is May 16-22. Organized by the Brewers Association, the national non-profit association on behalf of the majority of today’s U.S. breweries, this nationwide event now in its 11th year offers an exciting opportunity for small and independent craft brewers to celebrate the ever-advancing beer culture across the country.
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Condé Nast Traveler
Think of Asbury Park as the comeback kid: A Jersey shore destination made massively popular by Bruce Springsteen's eponymous 1973 album, a string of setbacks nearly took the town out with the tide — most notably a major economic dip in the 1970s and '80s, and Superstorm Sandy's damage of nearly 60,000 square miles of the town's beachfront boardwalk in 2013 — but it's back this summer season, and with a stylish new property, The Asbury Hotel, to boot.
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WKXW-FM
New Jersey has very a very old and restrictive system in place for restaurants to get a liquor license, but things could soon be changing.
Right now, the state only permits one liquor license to be issued for every 3,000 residents in a town. That shortage means that the cost for obtaining a license can be staggering — in some cases more than a million dollars.
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The Record
Once again, there's a shortfall in revenue that a half-dozen Meadowlands towns were scheduled to receive from a hotel-room surcharge in the district. And several pending appeals could trim some of their payments even more, a state agency warned. The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has sent East Rutherford, Rutherford, North Arlington, Ridgefield, Kearny and Jersey City partial payments of the money they were due on May 15 from a 3 percent hotel surcharge instituted last year.
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USA Today
There are a lot of unique regional foods in this country, and New Jersey has more than its fair share. Food magazine Saveur recently devoted a month to the Garden State and made the argument that "New Jersey is America's most edible state, with a food culture more rich, diverse, and passionate than even big names like California and New York." But while New Jersey college students have championed monster offbeat combo sandwiches, locals like crispy fried hot dogs, and there is a huge and delicious Portuguese culinary culture, no single food screams New Jersey as loudly as Taylor ham, more generically known as pork roll.
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Courier-Post
Tim McGraw's mega concert on the Wildwood Beach isn't the only big event at the southern Jersey Shore this summer.
From competitive crabbing to thrilling boardwalk amusements, there are a variety of new events from Somers Point to Cape May to get the family together or turn up nightlife by the sea. "There is a constant investment" in shore destinations and "constant change to keep it fresh and exciting and fun," Wildwoods spokesman Ben Rose told the Courier-Post.
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KYW-TV
April was another UP month for the 8 casinos in Atlantic City.
Year to date numbers from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show revenues, or what the industry calls "gaming win," at just under $813 million. That's 4.4 percent better than 2015.
Matt Levinson, chairman of the Casino Control Commission, believes the turnaround comes thanks, in large part, to downsizing the business from 12 casinos two years ago.
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The Baltimore Sun
Everything you need to know to have a successful trip to the Jersey Shore.
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Morris NewsBee
Get set for the "Beer BBQ Bacon Showdown," taking place from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 21 at Lewis Morris Park- Morris Park-Doe Meadow Field.
This festival features New Jersey-only craft beer, restaurants, chefs and food trucks, with an array of barbecue & bacon creations available for purchase.
Twenty New Jersey breweries will be in attendance, each pouring three styles of beer with one style either a rare beer or a brew specifically created for the festival.
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Tap into
The 16th Annual Taste of Piscataway brought a record high of 18 restaurants and beverage vendors and several hundred guests to the Radisson Hotel on Monday, May 9.
The annual event is the largest fundraiser for the Piscataway Rotary Club which uses its proceeds to benefit the many community service programs it conducts throughout Piscataway and surrounding communities.
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Westfield Patch
Enoteca Ursino is bringing Union County locals back to their roots, literally.
Picking organic produce straight from a farm at Kean University, the new farm-to-table restaurant incorporates the fresh ingredients into its dishes.
Terra Momo Restaurant Group will open its fourth New Jersey restaurant, Enoteca Ursino, in Kean University's STEM building on Morris Avenue on May 25.
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NJ.com
Six buildings have been named to the 2016 list of Most Endangered Historic Historic Sites in Hunterdon County compiled by the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission.
Union Hotel (1877) received several nominations, going to the top of a list released recently that includes four other buildings in Flemington.
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The Daily Journal
For almost 86 years now I have stood on Route 9 in Bayville watching the world go by (which for a dinosaur is no time at all), the scenery changing with each new decade, the population of cars growing from a handful here and there to thousands a day driving by my little place on the highway that was not so long ago little more than an oiled dirt road.
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NJ.com
Many people will warn you that when you've got a good thing going, don't mess with it.
However, when Belmar officials decided to reschedule the 30th Annual New Jersey Seafood Festival — one of the oldest and most popular festivals of its kind in the United States — from June to May in order to avoid crowds, they might have found a way to make it even better.
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New Jersey Herald
A new website that asks who, what, when, where and how of the middle and upper Delaware River area was officially unveiled recently during a luncheon for some of those who supplied the answers to those questions. Written by local people, the "Scenic, Wild Delaware River" is the latest of a series of efforts by National Geographic Maps to help people bring geotourism to their area.
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The Record
The Christie administration is dropping plans to bring large-scale private development to Liberty State Park, a high-ranking official said recently, ending an almost two-year effort that generated fierce opposition.
The unexpected announcement at a legislative hearing was hailed as a victory by park advocates who feared a large portion of Liberty State's prized Jersey City waterfront would be controlled by private interests.
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Inquirer.net
Foodies in New York and New Jersey will once again feast on authentic, bold and innovative Filipino dishes as Filipino Restaurant Week 2016 kicked off May 11 at the Philippine Center with the 15 participating restaurants offering samples from their menus.
Filipino Restaurant Week, or FRW 2016 features 15 Filipino restaurants that offer fixed price three-course lunches and dinners ($25 and $35, respectively, not including taxes and gratuity) that showcase the best of Filipino cuisine. It runs from May 16 through May 27 2016.
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NJ.com
The sign tells the story. Breakneck Road. It ascends up Wawayanda Mountain from Route 515 in Vernon through a series of S-turns worthy of Formula One racing. But these aren't the streets of Monaco. They're the streets of Sussex County, where the cottages and bungalows of Highland Lakes and Barry Lakes cozy up to the road.
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WKXW-FM
The service areas on the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike are not exactly known as the most welcoming establishments in the world.
But there's a couple that have undergone a complete transformation, making them attractions in their own right for travelers looking for a bite to eat and a chance to relax. Glass-plated on the outside, and bright and spacious on the inside, the Grover Cleveland Service Area near Exit 11 on the Turnpike may end up serving as the model of all future renovations going forward.
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Hotel Business Review
In a world full of options, real-time media and people connected around the globe like never before, it's no surprise that people are also sharing experiences and reviews like never before. But let's not overlook the fact that people have always shared reviews with each other. In fact, if we went back to caveman days, we're almost certain that they probably were telling each other what cave had the best rocks and why.
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Restaurant Hospitality
There's no getting around the fact that minimum wage rates are rising.
Recent legislation will bring the minimum wage in California and New York to $15 per hour within the next few years, and other states and cities are likely to follow suit. As a result, restaurant operators will be forced to more thoughtfully manage labor costs.
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Skift
A new survey conducted by the Center for Marketing Technology at Bentley University suggests print isn’t dead — at least not when it comes to providing visitor information to hotel guests.
The "Hospitality Visitor Information Survey" found that 98 percent of the 1,560 hospitality professionals surveyed value printed visitor information for their guests, and 94 percent provide guests with brochures, leaflets, and flyers. The hospitality professionals surveyed included concierge and front desk staff from the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and Greece.
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Associations Now
As the busy summer travel season approaches, airport and travel associations supported the Transportation Security Administration in its recent successful plea to Congress for more funds and staff to reduce wait times in security lines.
Recently, TSA representatives went before Congress to request a shift in budget allocations to hire more than 750 new officers and pay overtime to its current force of 42,500 officers.
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