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Palm Springs, CA - May 01, 2013. The National Ski Area Association (NSAA) awarded the Golden Eagle Award for medium size ski areas (2000,000- 500,000 visits) to Utah’s four Salt Lake County resorts (Alta, Snowbird, Brighton & Solitude), under the umbrella of the visionary Cottonwood Canyons Foundation (CCF)....more

SALT LAKE CITY (March 2013) – Visit Salt Lake (VSL) recognized Stephenie "Rainey" Butler as recipient of the seventh annual Dianne Nelson Binger Scholarship at its Annual Meeting held March 21 at The Depot. The scholarship honors VSL’s former President and CEO, and her legacy to the Salt Lake hospitality community...more

SALT LAKE CITY (March 2013) –During Visit Salt Lake’s annual meeting held March 21 at The Depot, Chris Peterson, Director of Convention Sales, was presented the seventh annual Dianne Nelson Binger Sales Leadership Award....more

Following an incredible week of photography and skiing in and around the Cottonwood resorts, the Ski Salt Lake Shootout wrapped up its sixth consecutive year with a sold-out Awards Party Saturday night and crowned its first repeat grand prize winner, Salt Lake local Steve Lloyd....more

SALT LAKE CITY, January 22, 2013— Nielsen Expositions, owners of the Outdoor Retailer Summer and Winter Market trade shows, announced today at the annual Winter OR On-Snow Demo held at Solitude Mountain Resort that Salt Lake will remain the host city for the Outdoor Retailer trade shows through at least 2016....more

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., January, 14, 2013 – City Creek Center has been named “Best Retail Development, USA” in the prestigious International Property Awards for 2012, in association with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and Yamaha....more

Salt Lake City, Utah – Spencer Eccles, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED), announced today that Vicki Varela has been selected as the new managing director of Tourism, Film and Global Branding at the Utah Office of Tourism (UOT), an agency of GOED....more

SALT LAKE CITY (January 2013) — Back by popular demand, Visit Salt Lake is again sponsoring the Sundance Film Festival Café at the Beehive Tea Room in downtown Salt Lake January 18-20. Presented by 90.9 KRCL FM, the Café will offer live music each evening. There is no entrance fee and it's open to the public, but ...more

US Bus Utah invites you to come and experience our Christmas Shuttle. The shuttle bus will run between “This is the Place” Heritage Park and the Utah’s Hogle Zoo to downtown Salt Lake City, making a few other stops along the way. Festively illuminated and filled with Christmas music, our bus will deliver you into ...more

UtahBusiness.com -- The storm that left one to two feet of snow in Salt Lake City deposited 50 inches of snow at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort between Friday and Sunday, allowing the resort to open early, beginning on Thursday, Nov. 15....more

Salt Lake City - November 5, 2012 - Salt Lake -- the world's largest ski town -- is experiencing a true Renaissance, thanks to the recent opening of a $2 billion redevelopment project, City Creek, as well as two groundbreaking museums and scores of new restaurants and bars. With the upcoming completion of the TRAX...more

Washington, D.C. – October 25, 2012 – As the nation looks to the next president for economic growth, hundreds of American companies have already discovered an innovative way to boost their bottom line: making their business bicycle-friendly. Today, the League of American Bicyclists recognized Visit Salt Lake with ...more

Sausalito, Calif. (October 9, 2012) —Smart Meetings magazine, the industry’s premier resource for meeting professionals, today announced the winners of its ninth annual Platinum Choice award. Among the award winners is Visit Salt Lake, the Convention & Visitors Bureau. This prestigious award recognizes excellence ...more

Kimpton’s Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City has recently undergone a $5 million complete transformation. Proudly revealed today to crowds of hospitality and tourism industry partners, government officials and clients, Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City’s new sophisticated urban look for Salt Lake’s well-loved downtown “guilty ...more

Salt Lake City, Utah — Sept. 4, 2012 — Ten years after hosting the Olympic Games, travelers and meeting planners from around the world are still finding Salt Lake to be a viable hospitality destination. The spirit that was once at the center of the Games, along with the lasting infrastructure and ongoing economic ...more

MSN Money -- Roadmap to the future... States are regularly ranked on things like jobs, health, schools, taxes and water quality. But how do they compare on the future? A recent report from the Gallup polling organization compared "the future livability" of each state. And Utah ranked #1....more

Utah’s largest rooftop solar powered electric system is operational. The 1.65MW system atop the Calvin L. Rampto -Salt Palace Convention Center was turned on May 24, 2012 by Salt Lake County and its project partners. It’s one of the largest roof-top solar panel installations in the United States....more