Hospitality & Tourism

Hotels, tourism, conventions, and the hospitality businesses fueling the visitor economy across the Baton Rouge area.

Local tourism market might not fully recover until 2023

Though the local economy appears to be bouncing back from the pandemic shutdown, it...

Virus roundup …  

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Hotel activity showing slight increases as L’Auberge prepares to reopen Friday

In a small sign of hope that commercial activity is beginning to return to...

Alford: State leaders have to think outside the box  

From the COVID-19 outbreak and the dip in oil prices to climbing unemployment figures...

BTR asks Metro Council to defer tenant payments amid low passenger counts

The director of the Baton Rouge Metro Airport will ask the Metro Council tonight...

Tourism leaders anxious to restart activity, uncertain about Mardi Gras 2021 

As businesses begin to prepare for phase one of a staged reopening this weekend,...
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Some Airbnb owners converting units to long-term rentals, others wait on LSU football 

Like other sectors of the hospitality industry, the short-term rentals market has been decimated...

Tourism task force looking at sector-by-sector plan for reopening

Leaders of the hospitality and tourism industry from across the state met virtually yesterday...

As talk pivots to reopening, what does that mean for hotels, travel industry?

While the gradual reopening of the economy may bring relief to some cash-strapped businesses...

Roundup: Coach Ed Orgeron / Viking cruises / Emergency response research 

Geaux Tigers: LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron was voted “Communicator of the Year,”...
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