L.A. Times Travel Show: It’s a wrap!
The Travel Show at the L.A. Convention Center on Saturday and Sunday featured destination booths, cooking demonstrations as well as celebrity speakers like Arthur Frommer and Henry Rollins. (Richard Derk / Los Angeles Times)
Can you ever have too much travel advice? This weekend brought together tourism bureaus, tour operators, travel experts, celebrity speakers and others to inspire and inform SoCal travelers. Here are some scenes from the weekend’s Travel Show at the L.A. Convention Center.
Visitors peruse information about Alaska on Saturday. (Richard Derk / Los Angeles Times)
Booths highlighted travel information about places near (Ely, Nev.) and far (Malaysia and Guam) during the two-day show. (Richard Derk / Los Angeles Times)
Dancers from the Guam booth pose for the “cover” of the the L.A. Times Travel section, one of the attractions at the show. (Tom Politeo / Los Angeles Times)
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Henry Rollins, right, rocked the Travel Show on Sunday with stories about his adventures in some of the 81 countries he has visited. Here he poses with Johnny Jet, a.k.a. John DiScala, who appeared on panels Saturday and Sunday. (Mary Forgione / Los Angeles Times)
Little dancers in costume take a break at the Guam booth. (Tom Politeo / Los Angeles Times)
A Guam greeter welcomed visitors to the country’s travel booth. (Tom Politeo / Los Angeles Times)
Food man Adam Richman talked about the importance of eating “local” wherever you go in the world. He appeared Sunday at noon. (Tom Politeo / Los Angeles Times)
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Sabrina Bandera of the La Guerrerense food cart in Ensenada, Mexico, displays sauces she developed for her signature dishes. (Tom Politeo / Los Angeles Times)
Fresh octopus was one of the ingredients at the cooking demonstration Sunday introduced by Bill Esparza, blogger for Street Gourmet L.A. (Tom Politeo / Los Angeles Times)
A clam dish made during the demonstration Sunday by Sabina Bandera and her daughter, Mariana Oviedo. (Tom Politeo / Los Angeles Times)
Dracula lives, at a booth about travel to Romania. (Mary Forgione / Los Angeles Times)
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Visitors stop to take a shot on the putting green near the entrance to the Travel Show. (Tom Politeo / Los Angeles Times)
Anne Willan, of Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne cooking school and author, talks about food and her memoir “One Souffle at a Time.” (Mary Forgione / Los Angeles Times)
Performers play music from Morocco during Sunday’s Travel Show. (Tom Politeo / Los Angeles Times)