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Tourism is a major industry owing to the city s climate, its beaches , and numerous tourist attractions such as Balboa Park , Belmont amusement park, San Diego Zoo , San Diego Zoo Safari Park , and SeaWorld San Diego . San Diego s Spanish and Mexican heritage is reflected in the many historic sites across the city, such as Mission San Diego de Alcala and Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. Annual events in San Diego include Comic-Con, discount car rental toronto the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament, San Diego Pride , the San Diego Black Film Festival, and Street discount car rental toronto Scene Music Festival. Also, the local craft brewing industry attracts an increasing number of visitorsfor beer tours and the annual San Diego Beer Week in November;San Diego has been called America s Craft Beer Capital.
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San Diego s cruise ship industry used to be the second largest in California. Each cruise ship call injects an estimated $2 million (from the purchase of food, fuel, supplies, and maintenance services, not counting the money spent by the tourists) into the local economy.Numerous cruise lines, including discount car rental toronto Carnival, Holland America, Celebrity, Crystal and Princess, operate out of San Diego. However, cruise ship business has been in steady decline since peaking in 2008, when the Port hosted over 250 ship calls and more than 900,000 passengers. discount car rental toronto By 2011 the number discount car rental toronto of ship calls had fallen discount car rental toronto to 103 (estimated). Holland America and Carnival Cruises operated weekly cruises to the Mexican Riviera for many years, but both ended their regular scheduled service in spring 2012, which was an economic loss to the region discount car rental toronto of more than $100 million. discount car rental toronto The decline is blamed on the slumping economy as well as fear of travel to Mexico due to well-publicized violence discount car rental toronto there.
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