Tourism and leisure - The Durango Herald

Six activities to beat the shelter-in-place blues

With all the chaos globally because of COVID-19, we are all being encouraged to distance from restaurants, bars, crowded places and even quarantine in your home, when necessary. T...

DATE: Apr 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

New Mexico cancels national tourism campaign amid virus

RIO RANCHO, N.M – The Santa Fe Plaza is empty. So are the narrow streets of the adobe-laden historic district in the heart of Albuquerque. The ski lifts are idle, the galleries are shuttered...

DATE: Mar 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business

Virtually free lodging offered to COVID-19 first responders and vulnerable people

Premier Vacation Rentals Group sees opportunity to help with housing after vacation cancellations

DATE: Mar 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango train to remain closed ‘until further notice’

Coronavirus prompts shutdown; railroad announces furloughs

DATE: Mar 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hindsight helps in making real estate forecasts: Coronavirus to play greater role than thought

COVID-19 changed the world, and Durango, during course of preparing and delivering 2020 outlook

DATE: Mar 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge to end daily train to Cascade

Ridership ceiling had been set at 250 passengers in response to COVID-19

DATE: Mar 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Purgatory, Wolf Creek ski areas receive little notice about closures

Gov. Jared Polis ordered shutdown until March 22

DATE: Mar 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango joins the destination management revolution

The tourism stakeholder community in Durango gets it! They understand the role of the typical destination marketing organization, like Visit Durango’s, is evolving to fulfill a ne...

DATE: Jan 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect

Records on track to be set in 2019

Thanks to the Durango tourism team and community, 2019 is on track to be another record-setting year for the local tourism industry. Over the past 12 months, Visit Durango estima...

DATE: Dec 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Tourism Effect