Tag: Tourism
Meet in RI To Help Jump-Start the State’s Meetings and Events...
It’s been more than a year since in-person meetings and events were abruptly suspended in Rhode Island, causing a ripple effect of lost business...
Returning to normal
Are you optimistic that some sense of normalcy will return by the end of 2021?
Yes: 90%
Unsure: 10%
No: 0%
When do you feel some sense of...
Tourism councils want state marketing leader with local knowledge
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s tourism council leaders believe the state’s next chief marketing officer should be someone with local knowledge, marketing experience and a...
Block Island to host Fourth of July festivities amid increased vacation...
NEW SHOREHAM – For the past month, the phones at The Block Island Chamber of Commerce have been ringing consistently with people calling for...
Down year is OK for Block Island
Block Island’s tourism-dependent business owners entered the summer fearful of the damage the COVID-19 pandemic would do to their livelihoods, but most report that...
We’re all invested in fight to keep tourism, arts alive
Amid the plight of those struggling daily to pay for food or rent or dealing with the devastating loss of someone to COVID-19, the...
Tourism needs R.I.’s full attention
The tourism sector is far too crucial to Rhode Island’s economy for it to get only partial attention from the state’s economic-development agency.
But that’s...
R.I.’s top tourism job in limbo
Almost five months after the state’s top tourism official resigned, R.I. Commerce Corp.’s promotional efforts “haven’t skipped a beat,” according to the agency’s interim...
Block Island limits moped rentals; reinstates outdoor entertainment
NEW SHOREHAM – The Town Council Wednesday night approved an ordinance limiting moped rentals on Block Island for the remainder of the year after...
Financially struggling zoos could be latest victims
SAN FRANCISCO – Since the coronavirus pandemic began keeping visitors at home, the jaguars and chimpanzees at the Oakland Zoo have enjoyed the quiet,...
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