Tag: Richard Scharf
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Great American Beer Festival returns to Denver in October
Colorado beer lovers rejoice. The Great American Beer Festival returns to Denver in October after a two-year, draught-less drought. An expected 40,000 beer enthusiasts will once again flood the Colorado Convention Center from Oct. 6-8 to taste 1-ounce samples of some 1,500 beers by more than 500 brewers. Tickets to the general public — over 21 years…
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E-bike trade show rolls into Denver in 2023
What’s being dubbed as the “world’s first national electric-bike trade show” will land in Denver in 2023, according to a news release from promoter Lost Paddle Events. Park City-based Lost Paddle, which also produces The Big Gear Show in Utah, will offer a business-to-business trade show, consumer show and networking for e-bike industry members at…
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Denver tourism rebounds in 2021, but headwinds persist
Denver’s tourism industry rebounded in a big way in 2021, drawing 31.7 million visitors who spent an estimated $6.6 billion, according to the Longwoods International Travel USA 2021 survey report. Visit Denver presented the report at a news conference Wednesday. “The travel industry was disproportionately harmed by the pandemic. … Thankfully, Denver is a very…
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Denver’s final Outdoor Retailer show starts this week
The last Outdoor Retailer Summer show in Denver starts Thursday at the Colorado Convention Center downtown and runs through Saturday. Show organizer Emerald X announced in March that the show would move back to Salt Lake City after a four-year run in Denver, which was marred by COVID shutdowns, cancellations and the postponed 2021 Outdoor…
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Outdoor Retailer organizers respond to calls for boycott
Officials with the company that organizes the Outdoor Retailer show said they’re “taking all input and perspectives into consideration” in deciding whether to move the show out of Denver. The Conservation Alliance, composed of more than 270 companies, said in a news release Monday that Emerald X, the publicly traded company that owns Outdoor Retailer,…