Hospitality, Marketing & Tourism

Vancouver nightclub owner Blueprint plans to close its Shine nightclub in Gastown on September 27 and completely gut the facility for a remodeling and rebranding, the company announced August 22.

Dozens of communities throughout the province have seized upon loosened liquor laws since Victoria began allowing the sales and sampling of liquor at farmers’ markets this summer, the government reports.

White Spot plans to open its 66th and largest full-restaurant in its chain on August 21 at the corner of Dunsmuir and Homer streets in a 100-year-old heritage building, company president Warren Erhart told Business in Vancouver August 19.

A record number of overseas tourists visited Canada in June, according to numbers from Statistics Canada released August 19. Overseas visitors made 430,000 trips to Canada in June, up 0.

B.C. restaurateur Frank di Benedetto, whose Frankie's Family Restaurants Ltd. operates more than 100 restaurants across Canada, has spent an undisclosed amount to buy the 27-location ABC Country Restaurant Chain.

Tourism operators thirsty to cash in on Vancouver’s burgeoning microbrewery sector have started to see success.

A surge in gambling and hotel visitors at Great Canadian Gaming’s River Rock Casino in Richmond helped the company (TSX:GC) post its highest quarterly revenue in its 32-year history.

Victoria is one of the world’s friendliest cities for tourists, according to a survey by Condé Nast, while Vancouver didn’t make the list at all.

A month and a half after Surrey launched a food truck pilot program, which includes six Surrey sites where 10 vendors would be given a designated space over the year, residents and foodies alike are wondering where and when they can grab said grub.

Convention, tourist and corporate business fuels hotel occupancy boom