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The Lafayette Hotel and Club is a hotel in San Diego, California, United States, that opened July 1, 1946. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 2012. [2] [3] The Lafayette's original name was Imig Manor, owned by local entrepreneur Larry Imig. It was originally built at a cost of $2 million on El Cajon Boulevard.
Le Travel Store, based in San Diego, California, was a retail store that sells travel gear.Founded in 1976, Le Travel Store claims to be the first business to call itself a "travel store," [1] and, the first retail store to cater to backpackers and other independent travelers, selling luggage, travel accessories, guidebooks, maps, and backpacks in a single retail location.
Tripadvisor, Inc. is an American company that operates online travel agencies, comparison shopping websites, and mobile apps with user-generated content. [1]Its namesake brand, Tripadvisor.com, operates in 40 countries and 20 languages, and features approximately 1 billion reviews and opinions on roughly 8 million establishments. [1]
Sunset Cliffs is an affluent coastal community in the Point Loma community of San Diego, California. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Ocean Beach to the north, Catalina Blvd. and Santa Barbara St. to the east, and Sunset Cliffs Natural Park to the south. [1] The area is named for the sheer cliffs which border the ocean.
The Travelers Insurance Company was founded in Hartford by James G. Batterson, a stone contractor [12] who became aware for the first time of accident insurance for travelers (i.e., an early form of travel insurance) while traveling in England in 1859 from Leamington to London. [13]
Travel photography is a genre of photography that may involve the documentation of an area's landscape, people, cultures, customs, and history. The Photographic Society of America defines a travel photo as an image that expresses the feeling of a time and place, portrays a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state, and has no ...
Condé Nast Traveler is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published by Condé Nast.The magazine has won 25 National Magazine Awards. [2]The Condé Nast unit of Advance Publications purchased Signature, a magazine for Diners Club members, for $25 million in 1986.
In the 1860s, the first Chinese people moved to the downtown area. [19] In the 1870s, the Chinese were the primary fishermen in the area. [20] Beginning in the 1880s, a large number of Chinese began to move to San Diego, establishing a concentration; with up to 200 Chinese making up a minority of the 8,600 who lived in all of San Diego. [21]