Vail Economic Development News Today

Vail runs on visitors. But how to attract those visitors is evolving. A good example is the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships. After a seven-year run in Vail, the last of the snowboard extravaganzas was...

Events, often with town funding, are a significant part of Vail’s economy. It may be time to change how that town funding works. Vail Economic Development Director Mia Vlaar, along with Special Events Coordinator Jeremy...

The summer of 2021 was a season of pent-up demand in the tourism industry. That wave seems to have broken. While Vail is quite busy so far this summer, the booking pace has softened for...

Until next ski season, the Eagle County Regional Airport will see three flights per day from Denver on United and one daily American flight from Dallas. There will be two flights per day from Dallas starting in June.

Airlines will cut back this summer’s flights into the Eagle County Regional Airport.

Airlines will cut back this summer’s flights into the Eagle County Regional Airport.

Vail has long aimed a significant part of its summer marketing at drive-up guests from the Front Range. That’s changing.

An on-again, off-again employee appreciation party in Vail is back on.

The Mountain Travel Symposium is a kind of combination of family reunion, speed dating, trade show and summer school. The event returns to Vail starting Sunday.

While the town of Vail is re-evaluating its event spending for 2022, some of the town’s spending paid dividends at the end of 2021.