Hospitality, Marketing & Tourism

Vancouver restaurants may get to keep patrons on patios even longer if city council approves the extension of a pilot program allowing some eateries to keep serving people outdoors late into the evening.

Spending to build convention business for the city seen as higher priority than paying down tourism marketing organization’s loans

Asian travellers, adventure tourists sparking boom in province’s wilderness tour market

Jump in full-service restaurant sales coincides with drop in B.C. restaurant menu prices

Legendary Vancouver restaurateur Umberto Menghi plans to reopen his iconic Il Giardino restaurant half a block from the location where it operated for 37 years before closing last summer.

The owner of the 35-location Fatburger Canada and the 70-location Ricky's All Day Grill told Business in Vancouver that he is close to acquiring a third restaurant chain to give him traction in Ontario.

Extremely successful B.C. winemaker Anthony von Mandl is expanding his empire by buying CedarCreek Estate Winery for an undisclosed amount, he announced January 24.

Greater Victoria's tourism sector, helped by a falling loonie, is filled with optimism for 2014 after what one industry analyst describes as "five years of misery."

The Rosewood Hotel Georgia has come in at number 16 on TripAdvisor’s 2014 Travellers’ Choice list of the top 25 hotels in the world.

A new report commissioned by the Tourism Industry Association of B.C. (TIABC) predicts that ferry cuts will have a negative impact on the province's economy.