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Response 5: Please explain what plans exist to allow this project to become self-sustaining. Include any plans for ticket sales,
<br />event sponsors, and other cost-recovery models.*
<br />Gallery One produces a balanced operating budget every year. We are fortunate to have diverse income streams to help
<br />balance any specific program or event shortcoming. In addition, we have built up a modest reserve as a parachute. Our events
<br />and activities are covered through a combination of ticket sales, sponsorships, volunteerism, and donations.
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<br />Application Questions: Part 4
<br />6| Additional Information
<br />Response 6.1: Provide any additional information which will assist the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee in evaluating your
<br />project and its benefit to tourism.
<br />Art facts from https://www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/2018ForeignVisitors.pdf
<br />>> U.S. cultural destinations help grow the U.S. economy by attracting foreign spending.
<br />>> Cultural travelers to the U.S. out stay, out travel, and out spend other types of tourists.
<br />>> More than two-thirds (68 percent) of American adult travelers say they included a cultural, arts, heritage, or historic activity
<br />event. Of this group, 28 percent added extra time to their trip because of a cultural arts, heritage, or historic activity or event. Of
<br />those who extended their trip, 40 percent did so by one or more nights.
<br />Please visit https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/reports-and-data/legislation-policy/naappd/cultural-tourism-
<br />attracting-visitors-and-their-spending for the full report of the overview below.
<br />Title:Cultural Tourism: Attracting Visitors and Their Spending
<br />Abstract:
<br />“Cultural tourism is based on the mosaic of places, traditions, art forms, celebrations, and experiences that define this nation and
<br />its people, reflecting the diversity and character of the United States.”
<br />Internationally, the United Nations World Tourism Organization defines cultural tourism based more on visitor intent: “movements
<br />of persons for essentially cultural motivations such as study tours, performing arts and cultural tours, travel to festivals and other
<br />cultural events, visits to sites and monuments, travel to study nature, folklore or art, and pilgrimages.”
<br />Both of these definitions demonstrate the value and desire of cultural activities as part of a rich, robust, and rewarding visitor
<br />experience. Destinations, particularly urban cities, have an opportunity to showcase cultural activities and provide cultural
<br />experiences through the formation of cultural districts. Americans for the Arts defines a cultural district as “a well-recognized,
<br />labeled, mixed-use area of a settlement in which a high concentration of cultural facilities serves as the anchor of attraction.”
<br />These facilities may include performance spaces, museums, galleries, artist studios, arts-related retail shops, music or media
<br />production studios, arts education venues, and/or green space. Cultural districts are traditionally mixed-use developments,
<br />integrating both commercial space and residential areas, often designed to revitalize neighborhoods or areas needing economic
<br />or societal stimulation.
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<br />Response 6.2: You may upload any supporting documents such as graphs, images, diagrams, marketing materials, etc.
<br />You are allowed to submit up to 3 single page (US Letter) documents in JPG, PDF or TIFF format
<br />2024GalleryOne Supplemental Materials.pdf 982.42KB
<br />7| Previous Lodging Tax Grant Information
<br />Response 7.1: Has your event received Lodging Tax funds in previous years?*
<br />No, this event/project has not previously received Lodging Tax Funding
<br />Yes, 1 year previous
<br />Yes, 2 years previous
<br />Yes, 3 years previous
<br />Yes, 4 or more years previous
<br />Response 7.2: Overall Attendance *
<br />Past Actual *Projected *
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