After a distinguished 35-year career in Huntsville’s hospitality and tourism industry, Marie Arighi, Director of Sales and Event Services at the Von Braun Center (VBC), has announced her retirement, effective January 1, 2025. Arighi has spent the past 25 years at the VBC, playing a pivotal role in securing conventions, tradeshows, and events that have […]
The Huntsville/Madison County Convention & Visitors Bureau has added a member to their marketing team Brent Boyd is the new Communications Manager and brings an extensive background in marketing and public relations to the position. As founder of CityVision, Inc. in 2004, a Birmingham-based multimedia advertising and publishing company specializing in hotel visitor TV channels, in-room publications, brochure distribution and travel guide publishing, Mr. Boyd has […]
While the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across all aspects of the economy, the hospitality industry took an especially vicious hit, with its profits decimated and much of its workforce laid off in wake of the catastrophic drop in travel. However, new reports from the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA), in partnership with Oxford Economics, […]
Named America’s Best Place to Live by U.S. News and World Report just last year, Huntsville has seen exponential growth and continues to solidify its position as a top destination as more and more fall in love with the city’s history, culture and community. On Monday, February 13 at 2 p.m. CT, 106 Jefferson Hotel continued to […]
HUNTSVILLE, AL – RCP Companies is introducing a $110 million urban mixed-use development, Anthem House, to occupy Huntsville’s rapidly expanding MidCity District. Featuring collaborative working, living and social offerings targeted to the growing young workforce in North Alabama, the project will feature 330 apartment units, 35,000 square feet of creative office space and 32,000 square feet of […]
Huntsville foodies rejoice! Award-winning Chef Marc Taft is teaming up with Atrium Hospitality and bringing in Chef Luke Hawke to create a new Southern bistro in downtown Huntsville. Connected to the Downtown Embassy Suites Hotel, CO/OP Community Table + Bar is slated to open in late spring. The new restaurant will welcome diners with a […]
The pineapple took the world by storm at the beginning of the 16th century. They were exotic, unique, expensive, and represented wealth. Europe’s royal houses paid thousands in today’s money for just one pineapple to display as the centerpiece at their tables. Because of their scarcity and price, pineapples were originally served only to the […]
“It’s been a hard season, but it’s made us a stronger community.’’
Travelers to the Rocket City will soon be able to experience new hotel brand stayAPT Suites with its residential suite-style rooms. The new hotel is under development at 210 West Park Loop, off University Drive near Westside Centre and Cummings Research Park. Guiding the stayAPT Suites experience is a design philosophy that abandons the traditional […]
A trio of area businesses representing the hospitality, manufacturing and food and beverage industries will be holding job fairs over the next five days. Huntsville’s newest hotel, 106 Jefferson, will get it started on Thursday. Next comes Polaris, the recreation vehicle manufacturer on Saturday. White Bison Coffee/Twice Daily, a convenience store chain, wraps up the […]
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