{"id":3792,"date":"2008-12-01T19:19:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2008-12-01T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:29:11","slug":"tourism-bureau-director-vacates-carlsbadistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3792","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Bureau Director Vacates Carlsbadistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week after reports of a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3738\" target=\"_blank\">$350,000 re-branding campaign<\/a><\/strong> by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadca.gov\/chall\/chctbid.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Tourism Business Improvement District<\/a><\/strong> surfaced, the Director of Carlsbad&#8217;s Convention and Visitors Bureau, <strong>Kurt Burkhart <\/strong>has announced that he is leaving <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> to take a job in his home state of Virginia, according to a <strong>Barbara Henry<\/strong> story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountytimes.com\/articles\/2008\/12\/01\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/zf310088aeb94004a88257512006b0702.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anybody that could put their heart and soul in (to the job) like Kurt did,&#8221; bureau board Chairwoman <strong>Nancy Nayudu<\/strong> as she discussed the many tourism-related boards and commissions that Burkhart has served on in his eight years as the bureau&#8217;s leader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;d say we were going to miss Kurt, but we&#8217;ve never really noticed anything he or the Convention and Visitor Bureau has ever done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountytimes.com\/articles\/2008\/12\/01\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/zf310088aeb94004a88257512006b0702.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after reports of a $350,000 re-branding campaign by the Carlsbad Tourism Business Improvement District surfaced, the Director of Carlsbad&#8217;s Convention and Visitors Bureau, Kurt Burkhart has announced that he is leaving Carlsbadistan to take a job in his home state of Virginia, according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}