The telephone is ringing off the hook at the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau with callers in search of hotel rooms for this Labor Day weekend.
“People are saying, ‘I need help finding a room,’ ” said Chelsy Murphy, CVB spokeswoman. “It’s fabulous.”
On Thursday morning there were still some hotels reporting vacancies, but not many.
Embassy [...] [...]
Meetings and conventions have been called the invisible industry, but hoteliers in Colorado Springs intend to change that.
And if the Convention and Visitors Bureau has its way, the region will be a hotbed for group business.
With the economy starting to turn around, convention business is poised to recover, locally.
Last year, while hotel occupancies increased, average [...] [...]
Starbucks Corp. has brewed up a deal to provide single-serve coffee to half a million hotel rooms, a major step into a small but fast-growing market.
The company announced Tuesday that it will provide coffee for Courtesy Products’ CVI single-serve coffee systems beginning this fall.
The companies did not disclose the value of the deal.
Starbucks has tried [...] [...]
There’s good news on the hospitality front: Group and convention business has been gaining traction this year, far exceeding expectations, and is expected to get even better next year.
Last year at this time, the outlook was dismal. Instead, demand has increased sooner than most people predicted.
The fourth quarter is looking strong or steady for most [...] [...]
Passenger volumes declined once again at the Colorado Springs Airport this month, news that’s become all too familiar since the recession began sinking its teeth into the airline business. [...]
by Rebecca Tonn Published: September 3,2010
Tags: Hotels, Tourism
Hotel occupancy in Colorado Springs, year-to-date, is up more than 4 percent compared to the same time last year. But there’s no need to uncork the champagne just yet.
Occupancy is up because room rates are flat or down. Lowering room rates became necessary during the recession to attract visitors in a faltering industry. But now [...] [...]
AAA Colorado projects the number of travelers in the Mountain region this Memorial Day weekend will increase 7.6 percent over 2009 with about 2.5 million residents taking a trip away from home.
Nationwide, 32.1 million Americans will travel over the Memorial Day weekend, a 5.4 percent increase over last year when 30.5 million Americans traveled [...] [...]
Hotels and others in the tourism business are hiring again, the latest sign of a recovering economy.
That’s good news for anyone looking for work. The bad news is that a stubbornly high unemployment rate has put hospitality-industry employers firmly in the driver’s seat.
In 2006 and ‘07, jobs would go unfilled. Today, applications are piling up [...] [...]
We’re intrigued by local businessman Perry Sanders’ plans to renovate three historic downtown buildings and transform them into an upscale boutique hotel.
The structures, which include the Independence Building, the Freeman Telegraph Building and the once-magnificent Mining Exchange Building, are now vacant and gutted, awaiting either spectacular rebirth or, if the fates are particularly unkind, the [...] [...]
The Space Foundation’s 25th National Space Symposium in April broke all previous records for attendance, international involvement, exhibitor participation and educational involvement.
Almost 8,000 people, including speakers, attendees, exhibitors, teachers, students, volunteers, and journalists attended the four-day event, exceeding the Space Foundation’s estimates and surpassing previous years’ attendance of 7,500.
Supporters say this year’s showing underscores the fact [...] [...]
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