Tourism and leisure - The Durango Herald

How tourism officials calculate Gold King Mine spill in ad dollars

If news articles were instead advertisements, cost would have been $4 million

DATE: Nov 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Region enjoying the small catch but missing the big boat

As the region’s tourism industry has developed over the decades, we have become comfortably successful but also highly dependent on a single type of visitor: the leisure traveler. ...

DATE: Nov 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: A Take on Tourism

Durango-La Plata County Airport studies environmental impacts of expansion

Director discusses marketing, name change and passenger numbers

DATE: Nov 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Silverton looks to diversify economy with new railroad

Long gone Silverton Northern could run again, but proposal steams D&SNG owner’s boilers

DATE: Nov 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Incoming state tourism director, Cathy Ritter, keenly aware of being positive

Promoting rural Colorado could help counter image of Gold King Mine spill

DATE: Nov 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango Area Tourism Office facing budget cuts

Director says 2% lodgers tax is spread thin

DATE: Nov 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

New national park marks development of nuclear bomb

Los Alamos, N.M., sites included

DATE: Nov 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

‘Today’ show weatherman Al Roker does his gig from Four Corners National Monument

Rokerthon 2 forecast from four states at once helps boost him toward spot in Guinness Book of World Records

DATE: Nov 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Al Roker to broadcast live from Four Corners Monument on Nov. 9

‘TODAY’ host attempts fastest weather forecast

DATE: Nov 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tourism pays its own way in county, Durango

It’s election season, and we face many decisions about potential increases in taxes, fees and mill levies. All of these sources of revenue are tied to projects or services that we require, d...

DATE: Nov 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: A Take on Tourism

Former La Plata County Sheriff takes town administration in Silverton

New town administrator takes on divided town

DATE: Nov 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Study suggests ‘green’ vacations could hurt wildlife

As the sun set, 25 boats converged on a small patch of reef just a few hundreds yards from the shore of Kona, Hawaii. With only four moorings, most of the boats illegally dropped anchor on t...

DATE: Oct 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business