Tag: Rhode Island Hospitality Association
2020 PBN Business Women Awards: Langhammer hopes current time brings ‘deep...
PROVIDENCE – While working from home for months due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Peg Langhammer has had a lot of time to reflect...
Greater Newport Chamber, Discover Newport form taskforce to combat COVID-19
NEWPORT – Restore Greater Newport, an economic recovery and resilience task force, has been formed, the Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce and Discover Newport...
Many R.I. hotels have checked out for now
It’s early spring, a time when people normally are planning their summer vacations.
But 2020 isn’t normal, for reasons that have become distressingly obvious to...
R.I.’s hospitality industry expects moderate growth in 2020
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island can expect moderate growth in the restaurant industry and modest lodging industry growth into next year, state and regional experts...
Visas fill hundreds of summer jobs
It’s midsummer, and Susan Tosun is still waiting on a few Newport residents who were offered seasonal jobs to get back to her.
Each year...
Boutique hotels go mainstream
Early on a chilly Wednesday morning just before Memorial Day weekend, Christopher Bicho walks into the Town & Tide Inn in Newport. An aroma...
State of dining distinction
There are many reasons why Rhode Island is consistently such a popular culinary destination both for those who want to taste and experience, as...
Adapt to disruptors – or perish? New players are disrupting a...
Where have all the apartments gone? On Aquidneck Island, and particularly Newport, the listing of an affordable, livable, two-bedroom home now draws a frenzy...
Flanagan joins Rhode Island Hospitality Association board of directors
CRANSTON – In a late December announcement, Tim Flanagan, general manager of the Kirkbrae Country Club in Lincoln, was named to the Rhode Island...
Five Questions With: Sarah Bratko
Sarah Bratko is the manager of governmental affairs for the Rhode Island Hospitality Association, which represents more than 800 hospitality-related businesses in the state,...