News Items tag as: Tourism Kelowna

Find deals around Central Okanagan today for ‘Love for Kelowna Day’
May 25, 2024 - 10:30 AM

There are festivities, including a wine tasting, downtown and businesses around the city are offering one-day only deals for ‘Love for Kelowna Day.’
Tourism in Central Okanagan is growing beyond pre-pandemic levels
February 29, 2024 - 7:00 PM

Tourism is bringing in more money to the Central Okanagan than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Central Okanagan saw more visitors during 2020 than year before, despite pandemic
March 01, 2021 - 3:32 PM

Despite COVID-19 travel restrictions about 100,000 more people visited the Central Okanagan in 2020 than in the banner year for tourism in 2019.
Downtown Kelowna gets new hand sanitizer stations, travel tips
September 08, 2020 - 8:00 PM

Residents and visitors will soon be using hand sanitizer stations and travel tips to keep free of COVID-19 as they visit downtown Kelowna or Orchard Park Mall.
Surge in Kelowna COVID-19 cases hasn't hurt hotel industry
July 25, 2020 - 7:30 AM

As news spreads that Kelowna is a hot spot for COVID-19 some visitors have been cancelling their trips, but the overall impact has been minimal so far.
Big White is anticipating travel and tourism will open before the weekend
June 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM

The man in charge of Big White Ski Resort told Kelowna Chamber of Commerce members to prepare for an influx of tourists from other provinces this weekend.
Show your love for Kelowna campaign attempts to offset tourism's economic crisis
May 25, 2020 - 11:12 AM

Tourism-based businesses came off a banner year but COVID-19 has dealt a curveball, which the organization that advocates for the industry is calling its "biggest crisis."
Spice up your Zoom calls with these free Kelowna, Kamloops backgrounds
April 28, 2020 - 1:30 PM

Tourism groups in Kamloops and Kelowna are offering Zoom users some local background options to use while video conferencing.
iN VIDEO: Photographer honours his Kelowna roots with spectacular drone video
August 16, 2019 - 11:00 AM

KELOWNA - There's two weeks left of summer. We'll all probably continue arguing about development, crime, addictions and homeless issues and traffic with different opinions on how to make this place better.
Taj Mahal or Travel Van: Two different takes on tourism promotion in the Okanagan
June 15, 2018 - 7:30 AM

OKANAGAN - Both Kelowna and Penticton rely heavily on tourism but they are reaching out in decidedly different ways both in strategy and cost.
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THOMPSON: Is dining etiquette a thing of the past?
OPINION I read a recent article that tried to make a case for getting rid of some rules of dining etiquette. Those rules, said the writer, “are made to be broken.” The writer’s logic seems flawed, at

$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

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