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Hospitality & Tourism

New Bedford again has downtown hotel

NEW BEDFORD – The city’s only downtown hotel opened quietly last month, making it the first hotel in downtown since 1969. The 106-room Marriott...
SOUND IDEA? A scene from Sound Session 2006. The event will take place this year despite the Black Rep’s financial woes. /

Sound Session fights to stay afloat

Despite economic woes, the Providence Black Repertory Co.’s signature event – Sound Session ’10 – will take place next month as planned and, according...
SEED TO GROW: Gail Read, Blithewold gardens manager, conducts a workshop during Gardener's Day at Blithewold in Bristol, an annual educational event. /

A plan for Blithewold’s next decade

It is one of Rhode Island’s special places – a scenic spot along the ocean, of course – where dozens of weddings are performed...
LIVING HISTORY: Peter de Savary, Vanderbilt Hall owner, purchased the hotel for $6 million and has spared few expenses in the renovation project. /

From YMCA to luxury city hotel

A broker phoned Peter de Savary in late 2009 and asked if he wanted to purchase the 100-year-old Vanderbilt Hall in downtown Newport. In...

PBN seeks Innovation Award applicants

PROVIDENCE – Applications are now being accepted for Providence Business News’ fifth annual Innovation Awards competition, which is presented in partnership with the R.I....

ProvPlace gets MooBella Ice Creameries

PROVIDENCE – MooBella Inc. has installed three more Ice Creamery machines in Rhode Island at one high-profile location: the movie theater inside Providence Place...

Mass. buys more South Coast rail tracks

BOSTON – The extension of commuter-rail service to Fall River and New Bedford edged closer to reality Thursday with the announcement that Massachusetts has...
FRUIT OF THEIR LABOR: Collette 
Vacations employees celebrate being named one of Providence 
Business News’ Best Places To Work.

PHOTO COURTESY 
COLLETTE VACATIONS /

Free travel sets this firm’s training apart

Collette Vacations provides its employees with all of the traditional benefits a worker could ask for, but sets itself apart with travel perks. As part...
PREMIUM SERVICE: InsureMyTrip.com President and CEO Jim Grace looks on as sales representative Nancie Sanita trains new hire Rick Ventriglia. /

Flexibility, training allow firm to draw best from its workers

InsureMyTrip.com prides itself on a comfortable work environment that encourages employees to excel. In 2009, 12 percent of employees received promotions as a result...
A GROUP OF DEVELOPERS want to put an acute-car hospital, a hotel, a private marina and other non-industrial businesses on the site of Providence Piers. (Click here to view a larger version.) /

Hospital, hotel proposed for Allens Ave.

PROVIDENCE – The City Council Committee on Ordinances will hear more debate on Monday over whether to allow about 360 acres of land along...
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