BC Hotel Association

• B.C. announces centralized booking system for evacuees needing hotel rooms

  Starting in June, emergency evacuees in three B.C. communities will be able to access an online hotel booking system when a climate crisis strikes, including wildfire or flooding.

  Canada

  May 4, 2024
  
• Tourism numbers expected to rise in Central Okanagan this summer

  Kelowna welcomes around two million tourists a year and hotel operators expect that number to grow in 2023, as more people come to experience the valley.

  Canada

  May 2, 2023
  
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• CEO of B.C. resort on leave after sexist remark at tourism conference

  Fairmont Hot Springs Resort says its CEO, Vivek Sharma, has been placed on immediate leave after he made an inappropriate remark at a tourism conference earlier this month.

  Canada

  Mar 19, 2022
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• Coronavirus: Okanagan hotels preparing to re-open with new protocols

  A hotel association says up to 40 per cent of B.C.'s 800 hotels could close permanently if locals don't help fill the void left by visitors.

  News

  May 26, 2020
• ‘This is unprecedented’: B.C.’s hotel industry takes big hit during coronavirus crisis

  As tourism has tumbled amid the COVID-19 crisis, waves of hotels across B.C. have emptied of guests and then shuttered their doors.

  Economy

  Mar 22, 2020
• B.C. tourism ‘off to a great start’ in 2016

  The new year is shaping up to be a banner one for tourism in British Columbia -- in large part thanks to a low Canadian dollar.

  Consumer

  Mar 25, 2016