Hospitality, Marketing & Tourism

David Aisenstat is closing his high-end Vancouver restaurant Shore Club on March 29 and will replace it with a Keg Restaurant this fall. Aisenstat is best known for owning the 104-location Keg Restaurants Ltd.

Skier visits to Whistler and Blackcomb mountains during this year’s two-week spring break “met expectations,” Whistler Blackcomb Holdings (TSX:WB) president Dave Brownlie told Business in Vancouver March 23.

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The Tourism Vancouver -produced video that won a silver medal at the ITB Berlin International Tourism Video Competition March 8 has since been viewed nearly 170,000 times in 167 countries worldwide, Tourism Vancouver spokeswoman Sonu Purhar told Busi

As hotel chains increasingly court travellers as competition intensifies, Victoria-based Accent Inns has started promoting a discount for people travelling for medical reasons.

Emad Yacoub ’s collection of independent restaurants is slated to continue its expansion – not only with a $1 million patio addition to Yacoub’s five-month-old Black + Blue steakhouse, but also with a new Italian-style café o

Municipality’s night market founder plans a return, but there’s a new kid on the block

Uniglobe, Flight Centre main beneficiaries of companies’ return to hiring travel management firms

One of Vancouver’s few remaining exotic dance clubs will reopen March 22, following a fire that forced it to close in November. The Penthouse nightclub on Seymour Street caught fire early on November 30.

The Tourism Industry Association of BC (TIABC) will merge its annual conference later this year with other organizations representing the hotel, campground and food and beverage industries into one mega-conference.