Want To Know How Travel, Tourism and the Arts Impact the Bottom Line in U.S. Cities?

Want To Know How Travel, Tourism and the Arts Impact the Bottom Line in U.S. Cities?

'USMayorTime' Internet Radio Show To Feature Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman Goodman Will Be Interviewed by U.S. Conference of Mayors CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran

WASHINGTON, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Want to know what is REALLY happening in cities large and small, throughout the U.S.A.? U.S. Conference of Mayors CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran will host Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman on his "USMayorTime with Tom Cochran" radio blog show on blogtalkradio.com at 1:00 p.m. (ET)/10:00 a.m (PT) on Thursday, July 2nd.

Cochran and Goodman will discuss the importance of tourism and the arts to the economies of cities, as well as encourage leisure and business travel to cities like Las Vegas. The nation's arts and tourism activities are an important component of our national economy. America's nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $166.2 billion in economic activity every year. And the travel and tourism's contribution to the national economy is $740 billion in direct expenditures.

To tune in, please go to http://usmayors.org/ and click USMayorTime with Tom Cochran. To call in with questions, please dial 347-327-9924.

Please contact Jocelyn Bogen at jbogen@usmayors.org with questions or technical concerns. Past episodes are available as a podcast to download and listen to on demand.

WHO: Host - U.S. Conference of Mayors CEO & Executive Director, Tom Cochran
Guest - Las Vegas, NV Mayor Oscar Goodman

WHAT: "USMayorTime" Internet Radio Show on www.blogtalkradio.com

WHEN: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. (ET); 10:00 a.m. (PT)

The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,139 such cities in the country today, each represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the Mayor.

Source: U.S. Conference of Mayors

CONTACT: Elena Temple, +1-202-309-4906, etemple@usmayors.org, or Carlos
Vogel, +1-202-257-9797, cvogel@usmayors.org, both of U.S. Conference of
Mayors

Web Site: http://usmayors.org/

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