News Items tag as: Hotel

Two new hotels proposed for Kelowna
March 28, 2024 - 9:00 PM

Earlier this week, the Mark Anthony Group filed an application for a 12-storey hotel in downtown Kelowna.
Kamloops hotels fared better than the Okanagan's in 2023
February 19, 2024 - 7:00 PM

Two consecutive years of high occupancy are triggering interest in building more hotels in Kamloops. At the same time, numbers are lagging behind in the rest of the Thompson and Okanagan regions.
Airbnb doesn't compete with Kamloops, Kelowna hotels but still stalling recovery
October 01, 2023 - 4:30 PM
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In the past year, the number of short-term rentals in the Thompson-Okanagan region has grown by 11.3% to almost 5,000.
$41.5 million deal likely biggest hotel sale in Kelowna’s history
May 19, 2023 - 7:00 PM

Kamloops-based Mundi Hotel Enterprises has made what is likely the most expensive hotel purchase in Kelowna’s history, paying $41.5 million for the Best Western Plus Hotel on Highway 97.
Founder of Kelowna hostel changed it from a crack house into 'pure joy'
May 12, 2023 - 7:30 AM

It was with “incredible optimism and obliviousness” that Crystal Flaman and her former husband bought an aging rooming house 25 years ago and turned it into the Kelowna International Hostel.
After 25 years, Kelowna hostel to be replaced with apartment building
May 11, 2023 - 8:29 AM

After 25 years in a big old house on Pandosy Street, the Kelowna International Hostel is going to be replaced by an apartment building.
Why almost every hotel in Okanagan, Kamloops is worth more than Kelowna's Ramada
March 04, 2023 - 7:00 PM

Kelowna’s Ramada Hotel and Conference centre is a big, sprawling, prominent, long-standing feature of the city, sitting right across the highway from Orchard Park mall.
Kelowna’s Ramada Hotel for sale for $32 million
February 07, 2023 - 6:00 PM

One of Kelowna’s best-known hotels is for sale.
Kamloops hotel industry healthier than Kelowna's following pandemic
January 26, 2023 - 7:08 AM

Kamloops hotels were close to full occupancy last summer and more rooms were occupied by customers in 2022 than during the pre-pandemic boom in 2019.
Hotels in Okanagan, Kamloops recovering from COVID-19 faster than rest of Canada
September 25, 2022 - 8:04 AM

After two years of COVID-19 slowdowns for the hotel industry, it has bounced back to exceed the record-setting levels of 2019.
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News Items tag as: Hotel

Two new hotels proposed for Kelowna

Kamloops hotels fared better than the Okanagan's in 2023

Airbnb doesn't compete with Kamloops, Kelowna hotels but still stalling recovery

$41.5 million deal likely biggest hotel sale in Kelowna’s history

Founder of Kelowna hostel changed it from a crack house into 'pure joy'

After 25 years, Kelowna hostel to be replaced with apartment building

Why almost every hotel in Okanagan, Kamloops is worth more than Kelowna's Ramada

Kelowna’s Ramada Hotel for sale for $32 million

Kamloops hotel industry healthier than Kelowna's following pandemic

Hotels in Okanagan, Kamloops recovering from COVID-19 faster than rest of Canada

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