Tourism

Correction: This news brief originally contained an error. Since 2006, Sunny Naqvi has been the sales and marketing director of the Great Northern Hotel and Conference Centre, not Algoma's Water Town Inn.

Going back to the drawing board is getting to be the norm in Sault Ste. Marie when it comes to selecting a committed and deep-pocketed developer for the city’s waterfront Gateway site.

A former mining town-turned-retirement community is seeking a local hotelier to help jump-start its sagging tourism industry.

Kenora's downtown revitalization plan is shifting to the waterfront.

North Bay's Capitol Centre is opening its theatre doors wider to meetings and conferences. With close to 300 concerts, theatrical performances and other activities being staged every year, the downtown Main Street hall is a busy place.

More than 70,000 people are expected to pour into the small village of Earlton throughout the 2009 International Plowing Match and Rural Expo (IPM) from Sept. 22-26, the first time the annual event is held in Northern Ontario.

Entrepreneur Jim Hilsinger would never have guessed that when he opened Algoma Water Tower Inn in Sault Ste. Marie 35 years ago that it would grow to become one of the city's leading hotels.

A total of 37 boats took part on the sixth annual Mackinac to Manitoulin International Yacht Race, July 23-25.

Flying fighter jets over Europe during World War II, Richard Arthur Watson could not have known that his idea for Pine Portage Lodge, 150 kilometres north of Wawa, would still be thriving nearly 60 years later.

Efforts to promote tourism in the City of Temiskaming Shores are getting a boost from a local developer on the verge of building a $9-million Holiday Inn Express & Suites.