Now in its 15th year, ARTfeast has become Santa Fe's premier winter celebration. The long weekend of events, February 24-26, 2012, is acclaimed for lifting spirits, satisfying palates, and paying for the artful experiences of Santa Fe's youth.

"A great time for a creative cause" is ARTfeast's motto in bringing together the finest art, food, wine, fashions, and homes. As a fundraiser for the nonprofit ARTsmart, Continue...

The Santa Fe calendar of 2012 special events reflects the city's reputation as one of the nation's premier centers for arts and culture as well as having one of the country's hottest emerging culinary scenes.
Below is a sampling of events taking place in Santa Fe through September 2012:

3rd Annual Santa Fe Restaurant Week
March 4-11, 2012
Back for its third year, Continue...

Late winter events in Santa Fe combine the best of the art and culinary worlds to create a uniquely Santa Fe experience. Earning a following by food critics and art-lovers alike, Santa Fe's ArtFeast and Restaurant Week are two of the city's unique and world-class gourmet and art experiences.
Santa Fe's 15th Annual ARTfeast (February 24-26, 2012) combines two of Santa Fe's premier activities, eating fine food and viewing fine art. With a focus on art, fashion, food, Continue...

The Official 2012 Santa Fe Visitors Guide has just been released. Filled with vital information and interesting insights, it is a comprehensive guide to exploring Santa Fe. Copies are free and can be ordered online at santafe.org or by calling the Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau at 1-800-777-2489.

The Visitors Guide is an indispensable tool for getting around and getting to know Santa Fe. It includes information about the city's architecture, history, climate, nightlife, festivals, Continue...

The Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau is pleased to add Debra Stottlemyer to its sales department. Debra comes to the bureau as Sales Manager with extensive experience in hospitality sales, catering, and operations. Her background includes time at the Grand Hyatt and opening Hotel Nikko in San Francisco to most recently working as Director of Sales at Hotel Andaluz in Albuquerque. Debra will further the bureau's ambitious sales initiatives focusing on Chicago, Texas, Continue...

The Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau has added Joellyn Baca to the bureau's meeting sales team. In her new position, Baca will oversee the bureau's west coast meeting sales.
Born and raised in Santa Fe, Baca brings years of hospitality sales and operations experience to the position. Previously, Baca worked at the Hilton of Santa Fe, Embassy Suites in Albuquerque, the Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, and the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North before joining the bureau.Continue...

The Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau has added Cynthia Delgado as the bureau's Marketing Manager. In the newly created position, Delgado will oversee the bureau's marketing strategies and implementation across all media.
Delgado is a native Santa Fean with 30 years of experience in business sales, sales management, regional marketing, international marketing, business development, strategic planning and branding. Most recently Cynthia was responsible for market development, branding, Continue...

For the 20th year in a row the knowledgeable travelers who subscribe to Conde Nast Traveler magazine have voted Santa Fe one of their favorite travel destinations in the U.S. Santa Fe was selected as the third most popular travel city in the U.S., after Charleston and San Francisco, joining a host of desirable travel towns in the magazine's 2011 Readers' Choice Awards. In the 2010 survey, Santa Fe was in the third spot as well.Continue...

For the 20th year in a row the knowledgeable travelers who subscribe to Conde Nast Traveler magazine have voted Santa Fe one of their favorite travel destinations in the U.S. for 2011. Santa Fe was selected as the third most popular travel city in the U.S., after Charleston and San Francisco, joining a host of desirable travel towns in the magazine's 2011 Readers' Choice Awards. In the 2010 survey, Santa Fe was in the third spot as well.Continue...

March in Santa Fe combines art and culture to create DIY Santa Fe 2012. Santa Fe Creative Tourism, which offers a wide range of authentic and engaging hands-on activities for Santa Fe culture-seeking travelers, debuts this year's DIY Santa Fe 2012 event schedule. Partnering with Inn and Spa at Loretto to create the DIY Santa Fe 2012 Spring Break Package, travelers will receive exclusive lodging savings of 20% on the Inn's accommodations during the entire month of March, 2012. Continue...

New Santa Fe Promotion Brings Savings and Culture to City Meetings

The Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau (SFCVB) has a new offer for planners looking for value and a memorable event: Experience Santa Fe... On Us. For meetings booking a minimum of 500 or more rooms per night for 3 or more nights, the bureau and participating lodgers are ready to provide a true Santa Fe Experience-and some value added bonuses.

The "On Us" campaign is part of the bureau's new meeting practices, policies, Continue...

According to the American Lung Association's "The State of the Air 2012" report released April 25, 2012, the Santa Fe-Española Metropolitan Statistical Area was the only city in the country to be ranked cleanest in all three categories of pollution measured in the report: short term particle pollution, long-term particle pollution, and ozone pollution.

The association also rated Santa Fe, and Honolulu, as having the cleanest air in its 2011 State of the Air report. Continue...

For years Santa Fe has been showing up on a variety of lists that speak to the city's status as an art market, travel destination, and overall desirable place. The significance is more than merely making it onto a prestigious list, it is also how regularly the city has been included. The following is a sampling of recent lists where Santa Fe has been ranked and rated. Continue...

As part of the annual America's Favorite Cities survey, Travel + Leisure magazine's readers ranked 35 metropolitan areas on a variety of travel-friendly qualities. These qualities were further refined and the results in three categories, cleanliness, pedestrian friendliness/public transit, and great public parks were used to determine the country's greenest cities.

Santa Fe placed tenth on the list behind such notable eco-friendly places as Portland, Denver, Seattle, Continue...

Santa Fe will once again welcome foodies, adrenaline junkies, and music aficionados to its Second Annual Winter Fiesta - January 27-February 5, 2012. Showcasing its proximity to the Rockies and its cultural and adventure treasures, the 10-day celebration will feature an array of special events, performances, and culinary experiences in various venues around Santa Fe. The event blends the best of Santa Fe's art, culture, shopping, music, award-winning cuisine, Continue...

For decades Santa Fe has been the destination wedding location of choice for couples from around the world. Few days are charged with higher expectations and with so much planning and emotion in every single detail, Santa Fe's relaxed pace, romantic charm, and large group of knowledgeable wedding experts put even the most frazzled bridal party at ease.

There are wedding planners-every bride's best friend-who have been in town making dreams happen and sweating the little things for more than 20 years. Continue...

Santa Fe will once again welcome foodies, adrenaline junkies, and music aficionados to its Second Annual Winter Fiesta - January 27-February 5, 2012. Showcasing its proximity to the Rockies and its cultural and adventure treasures, the 10-day celebration will feature an array of special events, performances, and culinary experiences in various venues around Santa Fe.

The event blends the best of Santa Fe's art, culture, shopping, music, award-winning cuisine, Continue...

September 15, 2011: The International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) will hold its 2012 World Summit in Santa Fe. The announcement came from IMBA during a Thursday morning industry event at Interbike International Bicycle Expo in Las Vegas. The non-profit IMBA is recognized as a leader in low-impact biking advocacy and as an educational force promoting cooperation between varied trail user groups.

The week-long, Continue...

City of Art Markets
Any visit to Santa Fe is unavoidably filled with art. There is simply too much public art, the number of galleries too great, the artists too plentiful, and the importance of art in the city too critical to miss it. Santa Fe runs on creativity, evidenced by its international stature as an art destination, and also by the variety and quality displayed in its annual art markets.

Each year some of the largest art shows and sales of their kind are held in the city's streets and plazas. Continue...

Travel + Leisure magazine's "America's Favorite Cities" 2011 survey again puts Santa Fe at the top of several notable categories and includes the city in the Top Ten in a number of others. Overall, the results confirm Santa Fe as a place for culture, fine food, peace and quiet, shopping, and romance.

As determined by visitors to Santa Fe, Continue...

AmericanStyle magazine will present its annual Top 25 Arts Destinations award to Santa Fe's Mayor David Coss on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011, at 12:45 p.m. on the Plaza Stage of the world-renowned Indian Market.

Wendy Rosen, publisher of AmericanStyle, will deliver the award during a brief ceremony celebrating Santa Fe's recent designation as one of the best U.S. cities to visit for art galleries, museums and festivals. Continue...

For the fourth year in a row the art-loving readers of AmericanStyle Magazine have rated Santa Fe the top small city for art in the country. In fact, Santa Fe has appeared in the magazine's Top 25 list of American art cities since the poll began.

With a history of art dating back to its Native American origins and carried on in numerous styles right through today, Santa Fe has evolved as one of America's most important art towns, regardless of size. Continue...

Santa Fe, New Mexico is the second oldest city in the U.S., a place of abundant art and culture, and a gateway to the southern Rocky Mountains. Those who haven't visited Santa Fe may envision a desert community of swirling sand, cactus, and perennial summer. While the city does have abundant sun, 300 days annually, Santa Fe has four seasons, with snow in the winter, and has more fruit trees than it does cactus. Continue...

7/7/2011: For the tenth consecutive year Santa Fe is included in Travel + Leisure (T+L) magazine's "World's Best Awards" list of top 10 favorite United States and Canadian travel destinations. For 2011, Santa Fe is ranked as the fifth most popular travel city in North America by the magazine's travel-savvy readers. In 2008, 2009, and 2010 Santa Fe was also in the poll's fifth spot while in 2007 Santa Fe ranked fourth. Clearly, Continue...

The annual TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards rank destinations throughout the world in a variety of categories. In the 2010 poll, Santa Fe, New Mexico was rated as the #2 US destination in the Relaxation & Spa category, #9 in the US for Great Food & Wine, and #10 for Culture and Sightseeing in the US.

"Millions of travelers rely on TripAdvisor for travel inspiration and have helped identify the world's most outstanding destinations," said Christine Petersen, chief marketing officer for TripAdvisor. Continue...

American Eagle offers daily, roundtrip air service between the Santa Fe Municipal Airport and Los Angeles LAX and direct flights between the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Santa Fe. During the late spring, summer, and fall there are three daily non-stops from Dallas; flights are cut to two per day during the winter. The daily flight from Los Angeles continues at one per day year round. Continue...

The Spanish Colonial Arts Society announces the opening of their new exhibit this fall, New Mexico Collects: Private Treasures, which will be on display at Santa Fe's Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. The exhibit will open to members at a private reception on September 9, and to the public on September 10, 2011.

This exhibit will feature several extraordinary art pieces from 10 private collections within New Mexico. Continue...

Santa Fe is one of 30 popular American cities ranked in Travel + Leisure's 2009 America's Favorite Cities poll, the results of which were revealed today online. Continue...

10/2009: The sophisticated travelers who subscribe to CONDE NAST TRAVELER magazine have voted Santa Fe one of their favorite travel destinations in the U.S. Santa Fe was selected as the third most popular travel city in the country after San Francisco and Charleston, SC and ahead of New York, at #4, and a host of desirable travel towns in the magazine's 22nd Annual Readers' Choice Awards. In 2008 Santa Fe was ranked in the fourth spot. Continue...

For the ninth year in a row, Santa Fe has made Travel + Leisure (T+L) magazine's "World's Best Awards" list of top 10 favorite United States and Canadian travel destinations. For 2010 Santa Fe is ranked as the fifth most popular travel city in North America by the magazine's travel-savvy readers. In 2008 and 2009 Santa Fe was also in the poll's fifth spot while in 2007 Santa Fe ranked fourth. Clearly, Continue...

Getting to know a place one visits can take many paths. While active involvement always beats a passive approach, the creative way may be best of all. Learning about art while creating it. Discovering culture while living it. Exploring local cuisine while making it. This hands on, immersive method is the defining concept of creative tourism and something Santa Fe has been refining and excelling at for years.Continue...

July 5, 2011: Santa Fe's summer arts and culture scene is in full swing as three of the region's most significant cultural events - Santa Fe Opera, ART Santa Fe and the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market - kick off in the next week.

The internationally celebrated Santa Fe Opera opened its season on July 1 with a critically acclaimed performance of Gounod's Faust. The summer season runs through August 27 and includes performances of Puccini's La Boheme, Vivaldi's Griselda, Continue...

Coming into Santa Fe from the south along the picturesque Turquoise Trail or off of I-25 leads travelers onto Cerrillos Road, one of the city's most commercially active streets. It's also the place to find economical lodging in town, some of the city's best ethnic restaurants, and a whole world of shopping.

The closer accommodations are to downtown Santa Fe, typically-not always-the more expensive they are. Along Cerrillos Road however there are more than 20 moderately priced hotels and motels, from modern, Continue...

The rich Hispanic culture of New Mexico will be celebrated at the 60th Annual Traditional Spanish Market, Saturday and Sunday, July 30th & 31th, 2011 on the Santa Fe Plaza. A popular event for residents and visitors alike, Spanish Market features handmade traditional art from over 300 local Hispanic artists, as well as on-going live music and dance, art demonstrations and regional foods. Continue...

According to a study by the American Psychological Association, more than 50 percent of working adults experience a great amount of stress in their lives. With the month of April designated as National Stress Awareness Month, Santa Fe is doing its part to help relax its guests by providing an array of dedicated spa treatments and packages designed to help visitors ease anxiety and learn how to live happier lives. A virtual oasis in the high desert, Continue...

Like so many things in Santa Fe, the holidays are celebrated just a little differently in this old city. The combination of Western, Hispanic, and Native American traditions blend into a celebration not duplicated anywhere else. Sunny days and cold nights, snow covered adobe, and the savory fare of the season add to the festive atmosphere that takes over the entire town. What follows is just a sampling of the holiday events taking place.

Ski Santa Fe. Santa Fe's ski area, just 30 minutes from downtown, Continue...

The 10th international AIDSImpact conference will be held September 12-15 at the Community Convention Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Delegates from over 60 countries will present on progress in HIV/AIDS scientific research and prevention programs in plenary, as well as concurrent oral and poster sessions. This will mark the first time the conference is organized in the U.S. For the first time also, there will be a Spanish track to accommodate researchers and attendees from Spanish-speaking countries. Continue...

ART Santa Fe celebrates eleven successful years in 2011! The eleventh edition of Santa Fe's international art fair will be held July 7-10, 2011 at the Santa Fe Convention Center and will once again present great contemporary art from around the world.

Designated as one of UNESCO's Creative Cities, Santa Fe is a globally familiar art destination. The city claims the second largest art market in the United States and draws visitors from across the United States and internationally.Continue...

Santa Fe's Community Convention Center, which opened in late summer of 2008, was awarded a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification, confirming Santa Fe's commitment to environmental responsibility and the merit of the center's design, construction, and operation. The rigorous process began with the design competition in 2005 and continued through the new center's first year of operation as data was gathered and processed. Continue...

Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau Recognized for Quality Meeting Service

For the second straight year, and fourth time overall, Meetings & Conventions Magazine has honored the Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau as one of the country's top CVB's for meetings by presenting the bureau with a Gold Service Award for 2010. Continue...

Santa Fe Indian market Celebrates 90 Years
Largest show and sale of Native art coming up, August 20-21

The 90th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market is the preeminent Native arts market in the world, embracing the past, present, and future of Indian Arts. This year more than 1,100 artists from 100 tribes throughout North America will take part in the largest cultural event in New Mexico.

This year's events in Santa Fe begin August 9 at Collected Works Bookstore. Don James discusses "One Nation, Continue...

Spring can't come soon enough for many of us, not just in Santa Fe, but everywhere struck by the deep freeze this winter. Thankfully, we're seeing life in the city's gardens as we begin to warm up and town moves into a livelier time.Continue...

If it's peace & quiet topping a traveler's list, then Santa Fe is the place to be according to Travel + Leisure magazine's 2010 "America's Favorite Cities" poll. Santa Fe was rated the number one city for Peace & Quiet and the top Cultural Getaway in the country out of the 35 US cities included in the rankings.

As determined by visitors, Continue...

The 2nd Annual New Mexico Restaurant Week returns to Santa Fe March 6 through March 13. This once-a-year happening offers specially created, multi-course dinners at a range of prices and venues, from two for $20 to $40 per person, depending upon the restaurant.

More than 50 of Santa Fe's most popular restaurants will be showcasing a wide variety of cuisines, including New Mexican, Contemporary American, Southern European, Fusion, Spanish, New World, Asian, Continental, Continue...

If there was ever a time to throw a party in Santa Fe it's during the middle of winter. This February 18 thru 27, that party will be called Santa Fe Winter Fiesta. Not only will the sunny days and chilly nights be filled with art, music, culture, and Rocky Mountain sports, the whole week is dedicated to value as hundreds of merchants, restaurants, and lodgers have come up with fiesta savings offers.

A special Fiesta Lanyard ($20), offering value prices at participating businesses, Continue...

The Inaugural flight of American Eagle's new daily, non-stop service between Los Angeles and Santa Fe took off from the city's municipal airport on November 19, 2009 becoming the third daily flight now serving the city. The Los Angeles service was joined by a second daily flight from Dallas to Santa Fe that also began service on 11/19. The two new flights are in addition to the first daily Dallas to Santa Fe flight that began serving the city in mid-June.

A large group of local business people, Continue...

Santa Fe (April 9, 2010) - True West Magazine has given its top Western Museums Award to the New Mexico History Museum. The awards are given in its May issue, soon on newsstands.

"This is the result of years of hard work by many people," said Dr. Frances Levine, director of the museum, which opened on May 23, 2009. "From designing a modern building in a historic setting to developing the exhibits to getting out the word, our staff and volunteers have come through time and again. Continue...

Long heralded as the nation's premier fairs
for outstanding contemporary arts and design in New York
and Chicago, SOFA's 3rd annual Western edition returns
to the Santa Fe Convention Center with new high-summer
dates in August 2011. Chicago-based The Art Fair Company
announced it will produce two art fairs under one roof
Thursday, August 4-Sunday, August 7, 2011. For the first
time, Continue...

For the first time, Santa Fe residents and visitors alike can easily find and experience practitioners and businesses that cater to those interested in natural healing through NewMexicoNatrualHealing.com. The site features the comprehensive natural healing community that thrives in Santa Fe and New Mexico--known as a "healing place" for centuries--making the state the premier alternative-healing destination in the United States.

NewMexicoNaturalHealing.com brings together, in a directory format, Continue...

4/08: For the third year in a row the art-loving readers of AmericanStyle Magazine have rated Santa Fe the top small city for art in the country. In fact, Santa Fe has appeared in the magazine's Top 25 list of American art cities since the poll began.

With a history of art dating back to its Native American origins and carried on in numerous styles right through today, Santa Fe has evolved as one of America's most important art towns, regardless of size. Continue...

Santa Fe has been recognized as New Mexico's top city for walkers and was rated as one of the top 100 walking cities in America by Prevention magazine and the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA). Santa Fe was ranked as the 22nd best walking city in the country from a survey of 500 American towns.

This year, cities were evaluated on 14 walking criteria, including the percentage of adults who walk to work, number of parks per square mile, use of mass transit, Continue...

American Eagle will begin new daily, roundtrip air service between the Santa Fe Municipal Airport and Los Angeles LAX beginning on November 19, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced. He revealed news about the flight today, June 11, 2009 at the Santa Fe airport during a press conference held after the first of American Eagle's direct service flights between Dallas and Santa Fe landed.

"This will be an important connection to the West Coast from Santa Fe," said Governor Richardson. Continue...

2010 marks Santa Fe's 400th Anniversary, making it the second oldest city and the oldest capital in the U.S. The Native Americans first called this spot by a river home thousands of years before the Spanish discovered the area. America's expansion west brought more influences as East-Coast artists came to town in search of new inspiration. Today the city is an international art market filled with the work of artists of every type including American Indian, Spanish Colonial, and contemporary. Continue...

Santa Fe For Family Travel: Santa Fe offers the traveling family a different sort of vacation. Instead of walking the mall there are centuries old Anasazi villages to explore. Rather than a roller coaster there is mountain biking. In place of the world's biggest ball of twine there is the world's largest collection of folkart. Not to mention relics of the Old West, Continue...

For Immediate Release

UNESCO Creative Tourism Conference Teaches Fundamentals of Latest Travel Trend.

Santa Fe International Conference on Creative Tourism, "A global Conversation," features world's leaders on creative tourism.

Some of the world's foremost thinkers on creativity and tourism will be featured as part of the Santa Fe International Conference on Creative Tourism being held September 28, - October 2, 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Continue...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) named Santa Fe, NM one of the organization's Dozen Distinctive Destinations in America for 2009. Noted for its individual architectural style, well-preserved historic districts, and dedication to cultural conservation, Santa Fe is both a living link to the past and a modern-day travel destination with its own sophisticated style.

The National Trust's designation comes as Santa Fe is about to mark its 400th Anniversary beginning on Labor Day weekend,
Continue...

After adding a second Dallas/Santa Fe flight and a Los Angeles/Santa Fe flight in mid-November, a third American Eagle direct flight between the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and the Santa Fe Municipal Airport began service on February 11, 2010. The new schedule adds an early morning departure from Santa Fe to Dallas and a mid-evening departure from Dallas to Santa Fe. Continue...

The Santa Fe Convention Center held its official opening September 25, 2008-the only date available when the new facility wasn't already busy and booked. Even as finishing touches on the building were taking place, the center hosted Santa Fe Mayor David Coss' state of the city speech on September 3 and several Santa Fe Fiesta events before going into an active fall schedule of meetings and multi-day conferences.

After, literally, 20+ years of talking about the need for a new convention center, Continue...

It should come as no surprise that UNESCO just made Santa Fe America's first Creative City during a July (7/8/05) ceremony inducting the city into the Creative Cities Network in both Folk Art and Design. For decades Santa Fe has been a center for original thought and enterprise. Walking up Canyon Road, Santa Fe's most visible art district, one can almost feel the creativity vibrating from each of the galleries along the street. While Santa Fe has grown as a center for contemporary art, Continue...

The people of Santa Fe have been working long and hard to capture the city's spirit, imagination, and pride in advance of the commemoration of Santa Fe's 400th Anniversary. As the oldest European settlement west of the Mississippi there is extensive ground to cover prior to this milestone. Wonderful plans have already taken shape and much more is in process to mark the founding of one of America's most historic and vibrant cities. Continue...