
CT Sees Tourism Bump, State Data Says
The state’s lodging industry got a bump from tourism this summer, state officials say, and Gov. Ned Lamont is taking a victory lap and launching a new initiative as leaf-peeping season nears.
The state’s lodging industry got a bump from tourism this summer, state officials say, and Gov. Ned Lamont is taking a victory lap and launching a new initiative as leaf-peeping season nears.
The state is launching a $1 million winter tourism marketing campaign designed to help the industry, which has been hit hard during the pandemic.
New data from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that the Connecticut hospitality and restaurant sector saw a big change in its growth rate this spring as vaccines took hold.
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Connecticut could lag behind most states in regaining hotel jobs lost during the coronavirus pandemic, according to projections by a national trade group.
Boston-based hospitality consultants Pinnacle Advisory Group have formed a strategic alliance with CHMWarnick, which operates a Fairfield satellite office, to provide business strategies to help the struggling hotel industry recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
A tired Meriden hotel could be converted into over 100 small apartments according to an application from developer Adam Haston filed with the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals.
A second Hartford-area hotel is headed to the auction block, a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on travel.
Massachusetts will join Connecticut in imposing restrictions on travelers from most of the United States next week, threatening fines of $500 per day for those who do not quarantine or prove they tested negative for COVID-19.
Gov. Ned Lamont issued a new executive order Tuesday night allowing the state’s hotels to resume operation.
Gov. Ned Lamont released detailed phase 2 pandemic lockdown reopening guidelines for Connecticut businesses on Sunday, stressing social distancing, limited capacity, face mask requirements and sanitation, days after moving up the start of phase two.
Gov. Ned Lamont has ordered all of the state’s hotels and other lodging houses to close their doors to leisure travelers as part of efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Hartford’s Homewood Suites hotel has become one of the first permanent casualties of the coronavirus outbreak.
The Hartford hospitality sector won’t break any records next year, but it will stay healthy and revenues will grow.
A Cambria hotel is headed for a superblock development slowly rising in place of parking lots left over from an ill-fated, midcentury attempt at urban renewal in New Haven.
A consultant’s report has issued eight recommendations to help reverse the Connecticut Convention Center’s sagging fortunes.
State environmental officials say they’ve been unable to find a private developer to transform a former 1930s-era tuberculosis sanatorium for children overlooking Long Island Sound into a lodge and spa.
A developer is pitching a 131-room hotel for the last undeveloped parcel in Glastonbury’s Somerset Square project.
The mile-long stretch of commercial real estate along Route 1 East in Old Saybrook has seen better days, but studies have highlighted the potential for multifamily and mixed-use development that could bolster economic development in this coastal town of 10,000.
Looking to capitalize on its wedding venue business, expand its display of small watercraft and boost ocean research, the Mystic Seaport Museum is planning three major construction projects.