Tourism and leisure - The Durango Herald

Local businesses recognized for welcoming tourists

DATE: Jul 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Celebrate our freedom downtown

There is no better place to be for the Fourth of July than in Durango. The Durango Business Improvement District has put together a full day of family-friendly events with something for ever...

DATE: Jun 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: What's Up Downtown

A little help learning tourism lingo

For as long as I can remember, the lodging industry has referred to selling rooms as putting “heads-in-beds”. Similarly, attractions like theaters, trains and ski areas have always strived t...

DATE: Jun 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: A Take on Tourism

Put out the welcome mat

After declines in lodgers tax, tourist industry looks for growth

DATE: Jun 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

2014 a record-breaking year for N.M. tourism

ALBUQUERQUE – Pointing to New Mexico’s slick television and online promotional commercials, Gov. Susana Martinez announced Monday that close to 33 million people visited the state last year,...

DATE: Jun 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Disney sets theme for rising prices

Escalating parks’ and resorts’ costs are muscling out the middle class

DATE: Jun 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A look at the summer tourism forecast

For those who depend on tourism, this is when the season kicks into high gear. The owner of a local recreational-vehicles business just told me he just enjoyed his last Sunday of...

DATE: Jun 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: A Take on Tourism

Ground breaking set for new inn

New hotel planned near Mercury Village

DATE: Jun 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sippy calls Sunday a success

It seemed as if the sky would open up at any moment and pour as it did during much of week leading up to Durango’s famed cycling event, a production that so many invest in and so many depend...

DATE: May 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wolf Creek land-swap proposal is OK’d

Billionaire clears hurdle toward development

DATE: May 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Pagosa up against Santa Fe in contest

Ogden, Utah, topped in first round

DATE: May 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Don’t call them tourists anymore; they’re ‘explorers’ now

Sometimes to better understand customers, you have to see them as they see themselves. More and more, travelers have shed the stereotypical image of a “tourist” as something straight out of ...

DATE: Apr 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: A Take on Tourism