Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show at the Long Beach Convention Center
I registered online as “Trade” and was invited via email to attend as “Press”:

Press and Trade Credentials for the 9th Annual Los Angel Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
So I got up very early on Saturday morning, got dressed, fed the dogs, had a cup of coffee, and traveled the 405 freeway south to Long Beach.

Saturday Morning in Long Beach (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
I arrived early and paid $10 to park far away in a parking structure next to the convention center. Then I walked a long distance up the block and around the corner.
Travel Show <– Left

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Then I climbed many steps and finally arrived at the Long Beach Convention Center

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Side Entrance at the Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Registration – I’m very early!

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Registration Check In

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
WELCOME!

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

Dining Area for Food Court near the Press Room at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

Empty Press Room and COFFEE at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Complimentary Coffee and Pastries in the Press Room!

Coffee and Pastries in the Press Room at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

Selfie with Pauline Frommer (Frommer’s Travel Guides) – We had coffee together in the Press Room at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Press Tour – Credential Check

Press Tour Credential Check at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

Press Tour Welcome with Pauline Frommer at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Press time in the Exhibition Hall (no crowd)

9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Greenhorn Creek Guest Ranch Booth

Greenhorn Creek Guest Ranch Booth – 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
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They still let kids play with shotguns!

Skeet Shooting at the Greenhorn Ranch 1978! (copyright 2013 JoshWillTravel)
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Getting their Taiwan on!

Taiwan Booth at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Okinawa is OK. At the Japan National Tourism Booth (JNTO):

JNTO Booth at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Korea – Be Inspired: VOGUE!

Korea Booth at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Mongolia!

Mongolia Adventure Tourism Association Booth at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Thailand! The flowers smelled amazing!

Thailand Booth at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Get down, get funky Thailand!

9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)

9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Indonesian Dancers

9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Celebrity Cruises’ (weird) 3D Talking Digital Video Standee:

9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Go Climb a rockwall!

Rockwall – 9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Run around in a big bubble!

9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Sorry no zip line because of new State of CA regulations, so ride a mechanical bull instead!

Mechanical Bull – 9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
And it got really crowded fast! Great attendance on Saturday!

Big Crowd at the 9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Rick Steves’ morning presentation – Standing Room Only

Rick Steves at the 9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Full house for the Pauline Frommer presentation

Pauline Frommer at the 9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
Travel Stories on the Destination Stage

Destination Stage at the 9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
There was another event in another ballroom and it got a little rowdy in the lobby!

9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
See you next year! Great show!

9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
A beautiful sunny day in Long Beach!

Terrace Walk at the Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
SWAG! Lots of free stuff and giveaway crap, candy and cookies, a ton of collateral material and a big stack of business cards.

SWAG! Collateral Material from the 9th Annual Travel & Adventure Show – Long Beach Convention Center (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel)
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