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Response 5: Please explain what plans exist to allow this project to become self-sustaining. lnclude 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 buili up a modest reserve as a parachute. Our events <br />and aclivities are covered ihrough a conrbinairon of ticket sales, sponsorships, vollrnteerism, and donations. <br />2500 cha!?cle.linlit <br />6l Additional lnformation <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 />Aft facts from https:l/www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/201 SForeignVisitors.pdf <br />>> U.S. cultural destinations help grow the U.S. economy by atttacting 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-programlreports-and-datallegislation-policy/naappdlcultural{ourism- <br />attracting-visitors-and-their-spending for the full repod 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, traditrons. art forms. celebrations, and experiences that define this nation and <br />its people, reflecting the diversiiy 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 culiural motivations such as siudy tours, performing ar1s 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 cu{tural district as "a welFrecognized, <br />labeled. mixed-use area of a settlement in which a high concentration of cLrltural 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 educaiion venues, andlor 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. <br />2500 character limit <br />Response 5.2: You may upload any supporting documents such as graphs, images, diagrams, marketing materials, etc. <br />You are allcrred ta subnril irp io f, single page iUS Letierl doLrurnents rn JpG. PDF or TIFF ioflnat <br />2024GalleryOne Supplemental Materials.pdf 9B2A2KB <br />7l Previous Lodging Tax Grant lnformation <br />Response 7.1 : Has your event received Lodging Tax funds in previous years? * <br />, No, this evenVproject has not previously received Lodging Tax Funding <br />. Yes, 1 year previous <br />Yes. 2 years prevrous <br />, Yes, 3 years previous <br />Yes, 4 or l'nore years previous <br />Response 7.2: Ov erallAttendance * <br />Past Actual * <br />Application Questions: Part 4 o <br />Projected *