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		<title>Oct. 2024: 16.8% fewer visitors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Charles M. Kelly October 2024 saw a 16.8% decrease in visitor traffic compared with October 2023, according to data released by Love Catalina Tourism Authority. November data was released this week and is scheduled to be covered in next week’s edition of the Islander. (Visitors should know that the Tourism Authority is not a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cruise ship fees to rise to $7.50 a passenger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week the Avalon City Council unanimously adopted new wharfage fees for cruise ships that visit Catalina Island. The new rate of $7.50 per passenger aboard each cruise ship will go into effect Jan. 1, 2026. The council also ended the marketing incentive in the Municipal Code that returned 50% of wharfage fees collected for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>December 2023 visitor count is a record</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Catalina had a record-setting December 2023, according to statistics recently released by Love Catalina Tourism Authority. “December visitation increased year-over-year by 12.3% or 7,783 visitors totaling 70,869 arrivals. December 2023 total arrivals set a record for the month slightly beating last year’s high of 63,086,” according to the Love Catalina website. “Passengers arriving by sea, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Visitor counts return to near-normal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Love Catalina Island’s portion of the transient occupancy tax (short term rental tax) for Fiscal Year 2023 is $1,826,003, according to the City Council staff report by City Manager David Maistros. (That’s a decrease of $82,803 from Fiscal Year 2022, according to the calculator.) Visitor numbers, on the other hand, increased from 978,178 in Fiscal [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: published Sept. 9, 2023</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catalina Islander Readers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Review of short term rentals in Avalon As a property owner at 357 Descanso, and a part time resident I would like to comment on the current STR issue under review. Our property has been in the Paulson/Gaines family since 1936. Both long term and short term rentals have been utilized here for many years. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ranking lists local hotel among best</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Apodaca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 17:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Avalon Hotel is Yelp’s No. 13 among nations favorites In a recent yelp.com posting, the review site published an article ranking the top 100 hotels at which to stay in the United States. The article used reviews and rating data to determine what the top hotels were from 2022. Coming in at No. 13 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>City Council and Love Catalina meet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inaugural joint meeting looks at Love Catalina Tourism Authority funding, other issues Part one of two: funding and trust. Love Catalina Tourism Authority board members talked about feeling defensive at the first joint meeting of the Avalon City Council and the business group. This discussion dominated roughly the first half of the almost two-hour meeting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chants from Avalon heard ‘we’re No. 19!’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Apodaca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sounds funny, but Catalina Island is hitting big numbers A travel website recently surveyed 3,000 families to determine the top 150 small towns they like to visit this year. Of the 150 small towns, Avalon was ranked 19th and was the highest ranked town in California. In the survey, conducted by FamilyDestinationsGuide.com, Avalon was voted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>January 2023 sees more visitors than 2022</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Overall, more visitors came to Catalina in January 2023 than in January 2022, according to figures that Love Catalina Island released this week. The numbers “January visitation increased year-over-year by 5.7% or 2,226 visitors,” according to the Love Catalina website. “January 2023’s total of 41,437 was below 2020’s pre COVID-19 total monthly arrivals of 52,691 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Disney Cruise Line set to visit nine times this year</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[For the Islander]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Love Catalina Island Following Disney Cruise Line’s inaugural visit to the port of Avalon on Catalina Island in March 2022, Love Catalina, the official Catalina Island Tourism Authority, this week announced that Disney Cruise Line plans to call on the port nine times throughout 2023. Guests aboard the Disney Wonder and Disney Magic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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