We’re jumping into the busiest time of year for tourism in Tucson. A wave of big-draw events is coming to Southern Arizona, kicking off this weekend with the Tucson Jazz Festival.
A wave of big-draw events is coming to Southern Arizona, kicking off this weekend with the Tucson Jazz Festival .
“We’re a small part of the piece of the pie that makes Tucson a wonderful place to come visit,” he said Friday. “And for residents, it’s a place for us to be able to enjoy what, the riches of what our community brings.”Visit Tucson is expecting more than 60,000 visitors to the city during that time—about what Tucson typically saw before the pandemic. The organization also says tourism rebounded to 75 percent of pre-Covid levels during last year’s Showcase.
That also means museum exhibitors from around the world can return to the Old Pueblo for the official Tucson Gem and Mineral Show . “We had a number of dealers at the show last year tell us they had the best show they had ever had — by a multiple,” said show co-chair and exhibits co-chair Peter Megaw, who says the pandemic led to a bigger and younger group of mineral collectors around the world.On the heels of gem show season comes the Tucson Rodeo, also known as La Fiesta de los Vaqueros .
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