When Anyang, a city in South Korea, celebrates in September 50 years since its founding, special guests will include Garden Grove city leaders and Anaheim tourism delegates.
Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones and Councilmembers Stephanie Klopfenstein, Joe DoVinh and Cindy Tran will join staffers as well as representatives from Great Wolf Lodge on an eight-day trip to the city located in the Gyeonggi Province. They will be joined by delegates from Visit Anaheim as well as representatives from the Disneyland Resort and Westin Anaheim Resort.
The trip is scheduled from Sept. 15-23.
“Garden Grove, for the past 40 years, has had a very close friendship and cooperative relationship with our sister city in South Korea, Anyang,” said Maria Stipe, the assistant city manager. “The city has been invited to help celebrate their 50th anniversary and commemorate their 50 years of cityhood.”
The celebration will include activities for staff to participate in, said Stipe.
“I’m looking forward to supporting Anyang City’s 50th anniversary of cityhood and learning about international business strategies and best practices from our partners in South Korea,” said Jones. “I’m also excited to showcase Garden Grove’s hotel resort district to promote and grow tourism for the economic benefit of Garden Grove.”
The trip will be twofold: The first half will focus on supporting the Visit Anaheim tourism promotion component, Stipe said, while the second will center on Anyang’s anniversary celebrations. Visit Anaheim representatives and one Garden Grove representative will travel to Tokyo instead of Anyang to continue tourism promotion.
In the Visit Anaheim portion of the trip, trade partners will promote Anaheim and the Garden Grove hotel district to South Korean tour operators.
Representatives from Garden Grove and Anaheim, as well as the hotels, each pay $6,000 to participate in the program. Anyang will fund lodging, ground transportation and interpreters…
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