Frontier Airlines expects to find out this month if it won a bid for a direct flight from Colorado Springs to Washington D.C. “We really hope that it happens,” said Andrea Tollar, Frontier Airlines director of sales. Tollar spoke to leaders in the Colorado Springs tourism industry Wednesday at the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors [...] [...]
The deadline to submit a design that helps brand the city is looming. The Colorado Springs branding task force is accepting design ideas to go along with its city slogan “Live it Up” until noon Jan. 6. Submissions are already coming in, said Chelsy Murphy, Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau spokeswoman. “We want to [...] [...]
The Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau named some of this year’s best tourism spots and events in Colorado Springs. The winners were announced this week at the CVB’s annual Tourism Industry Awards Celebration, where officials also launched the city’s new slogan “Live it Up!” and logo. Five industry awards were presented by Doug Price, [...] [...]
A group of Colorado Springs business leaders and residents will meet today and Tuesday to brainstorm the city’s brand strategy. Called a charrette, the two-day meeting is the last step in the information gathering process led by Stone Mantel, a Colorado Springs-based brand and strategy firm. The interactive exercise will call upon the 100 participants [...] [...]
Doug Price, CEO of the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau, calls tourism the “invisible industry,” and based on his policy for sharing how the CVB spends public money, he intends to keep it that way. Despite the fact that taxpayers provide the CVB its money, Price has declined to release information about his own [...] [...]
National Tourism and Travel week starts Saturday, and the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau is highlighting the industry’s economic impact in the state with a billboard. The CVB has a live tourism dollar counter at three digital billboard locations in the city. The billboards show the infusion of collars as a direct result of [...] [...]
Gasoline prices are rising, and Americans are driving less. That could add up to an ominous forecast for the local tourism industry, but Doug Price, CEO of the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau, isn’t worried, despite the fact that Colorado Springs is an 80-percent drive-destination market. He expects that visitors will still come to the city, [...] [...]
The rest of the nation knows Colorado Springs as a sports mecca, from the Olympics to mountain biking to ice hockey. Locals, however, may be unaware of the full extent of the city’s sports connection, from youth soccer to annual championships involving teams from around the world. This story gauges the economic impact of the [...] [...]
Psst - Colorado Springs and nearby historic districts have received a prestigious, national designation, but, it's a secret for another week.
The city's tourism and cultural leaders announced today that they're getting the award next week, but they remain tight-lipped about who's giving it. [...]
The top wakeboarders in the world are coming to Prospect Lake this summer. Prospect Lake? Yep. On July 23 and 24, the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour will be in Colorado Springs – the fourth event in a five-stop series points race for the Pro Tour title. Wakeboarding is a rail-sliding, water-sport. Riders compete in a series of rounds, performing [...] [...]
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