STAC Students Making Career Strides With Paid Internships In Hospitality Business
RCBJ Talks With Angela McDonnell About Paid Internships In The Hospitality Sector
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Category: Tourism
Rockland County Living, Arts & Entertainment, Food & Drink, Tourism
New York Thruway Readying For Major Makeover But Retail Jobs In Limbo
Work is moving forward on an ambitious $450 million overhaul of Thruway rest areas that currently employ over 460 New York residents, including Sloatsburg Travel Plaza.
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Customized Student Tour Agent Gears Up For Post-Pandemic Travel Demand
But the coronavirus pandemic, which brought worldwide travel to a standstill over the past year, has delivered her to the brink. Coffey spent most of 2020 navigating furloughs and refunds for a year’s worth of planned specialty student tours.
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Nyack’s Business Community Steps Up Efforts To Boost Village’s Economic Engine
on Dec. 10th, the Village’s Board of Trustees are expected to pass a resolution to create a Nyack Business Council to bring individual groups under one tent to steer the village through the pandemic and beyond.
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Valley Rock Settles With Brooklyn Couple Over Wedding Cancellation
What began as a dream weekend wedding at an idyllic and sylvan Rockland County outpost turned into a bitter feud that ended in litigation and ultimately a settlement that left both sides cheated.
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Palisades Center Conflict Must Be Resolved, Says Day In State Of The County Address
County Executive Ed Day used his bully pulpit during Thursday’s State of the County address at The Palisades Center to advocate for a resolution on the mall’s deadlocked efforts with the Town of Clarkstown to build out an unused portion of space on the fourth floor
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Hoteliers Are Hot On Rockland County
Hoteliers of all stripes are betting Rockland County’s business class needs more rooms and the outlook for tourism is robust. Slated to open in 2020, Element by Westin, a Marriott brand, and Holiday Inn Express at Thruway Plaza, will add more than 200 rooms to the Route 59 Corridor.
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Is Chinese Tourism To Rockland Sustainable?
America’s trade war between the United States and China is beginning to impact the $1.6 trillion American travel industry.
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Is Nyack’s Former River Club Going To Be Torn Down?
Does Nyack’s former River Club have a date with the wrecking ball?That will likely be determined at the Village Board’s next meeting on May 23rd when the trustees have anticipated cost estimates for demolishing the distressed building.
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Rockland’s Tourism Tsar Lucy Redzeposki To Leave Post
Lucy Redzeposki, a human-driven tour-de-force for tourism and economic development in Rockland County, is leaving her post.
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