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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