Tourism
Escalating Homelessness Woes Prompt Cancellation of Olympia Condo Project
Other cities around the country, including Seattle, are also coping with business disruptions due to rising homelessness
The Percival condo project planned for downtown Olympia has been cancelled, with the developer citing the “social climate” in the state capital’s downtown as a major contributing factor to the project’s demise.
Ivars is at it Again, This Time with Drone Delivery
Its April Fools Day, and Ivars Inc. is having some fun
One year came the news that Ivars Inc. had discovered that founder Ivar Haglund had installed underwater billboards off Alki Beach to advertise clam chowder. Another year the seafood chain announced that it had developed a clam chowder vending machine. In both cases, local media picked up the stories thinking they were true. The Seattle-based…
Thriving Seattle Convention Business Shows No Signs of Slowing
Visit Seattle says 2018 was a record-breaking year
Convention-goers are coming to Seattle in record numbers as the city builds new hotels and adds more than 440,000 square feet of event and office space to the Washington State Convention Center. Visit Seattle, the regions tourism marketing organization, says 2018 was a record-breaking year for the convention industry in King County. The Washington State…
King County Again Busts Tourism Record
Visitor count in 2018 reached nearly 41 million
Visitors descended on King County at record rates for the ninth consecutive year, according to statistics released at Visit Seattles annual meeting today. Preliminary estimates indicate that 40.9 million visitors came to King County last year, up 2.5 percent from 2017. Visitors last year spent $7.8 billion, a hike of 5.8 percent from two years…