CVB site set to launch “Book it Now” option for area hotels and attractions
August 8, 2012 Comments OffStarting in August, a traveler to Colorado Springs can book a hotel or get tickets to local attractions from the Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau website with a button that says “Book It Now.” The CVB has signed an agreement with Regatta Travel Solutions, a Virginia-based online booking company that specializes in marketing tactics [...]
Continue reading …An Aspen hotel is counting on Chinese tourists to fill rooms. The Little Nell hotel recently sent representatives to China, hoping to lure wealthy Chinese tourists looking for a Western mountain town experience. Hotel officials believe many wealthy Chinese who send their children to U.S. schools could be sold on a North [...]
Continue reading …Business is starting to pick up again for the Pikes Peak Cog Railway. Dave Donatto, traffic manager for the cog predicted a slow summer season for the train the week the Waldo Canyon wildfire burned more than 1,800 acres north of the peak and 346 homes on the northwest side of Colorado Springs. The train [...]
Continue reading …A group of local residents is turning to social media to help drive business to the Springs in the wake of the Waldo Canyon fire. The campaign isn’t going after out-of-towners. The group is targeting locals in a campaign they dub, “MYtinerary: All the Adventure, None of the Baggage.” The group, with an Ingenuity grant [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum has launched the second phase of its exterior restoration project. Director Matt Mayberry said the museum is still open even though of the construction barriers and renovation workers. “A few people have called us to find out what the heck is going on,” Mayberry said. “The barriers are in place [...]
Continue reading …In the game of summer tourism, Colorado Springs got its butt kicked in the first half by the Waldo Canyon fire …
Continue reading …Colorado Springs hotels ought to kick in money to form a Tourism Marketing District, said one long-time hotel manager/owner who helped start the San Diego Tourism Marketing District five years ago. Bob Rauch, president of San Diego-based R.A. Rauch & Associates, Inc and a co-owner of Colorado Springs Quality Inn & Suites at Garden of [...]
Continue reading …A New York banker and oilman, known in fashionable art circles for his philanthropy and art investments, has taken on a new art project — the Ute Pass town of Green Mountain Falls.
Continue reading …He said the opportunity be near Vail was too good to pass up.
Continue reading …Sixteen of the world’s best professional cycling teams will compete in the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge, set for Aug. 20-26. The racing teams, comprised of UCI Pro, Pro Continental and Continental teams, will include some of the top competitors in the sport, including Cadel Evans and Levi Leipheimer. The race, second only to Tour [...]
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