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The Vail Town Council on Tuesday repealed the requirement to wear facial coverings outdoors in the town’s resort villages.
Responding to changes in the COVID-19 pandemic, the town stopped enforcement April 19 of its outdoor mask mandate, first passed in November 2020. Full repeal had to wait until the April 20 meeting.
The original outdoor mandate was passed in an effort to maintain a semblance of a full ski season. At the time, town and Vail Resorts officials were looking for consistency in requirements for guests heading from the town’s main parking structures to the gondolas in Vail Village and Lionshead.
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Partnership Content Marketing Manager Ben Dodd said work on the new VVP Connect platform began in late summer of 2020.
The valley-wide chamber then conducted its annual member survey in October and November.
“People said the No. 1 thing they were looking for was connection,” Vail Valley Partnership President and CEO Chris Romer. In a year in which seminars, after-work mixers and other events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Romer said the Partnership had to think about how it could meet that need.
That’s when work accelerated on VVP Connect. The platform is nearly ready to launch, and should in the next few weeks, Dodd said.