Hospitality

Open a map of Worcester on Airbnb, and a peppering of locations pops up throughout the city...

A survey of corporate travel specialists has revealed that over half of business travelers have made use of a service in the sharing economy that encompasses companies such as Uber and AirBnB.

The Central Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau is dead. Will its successor, the Worcester Regional Visitors and Tourism Corp., pump more life into the region's tourism industry?

If you were to come up with words or phrases to describe Central Massachusetts, “tourist mecca” would likely not make it into a “top 10” list. We're not Orlando or Las Vegas, but we're also not the Kansas and Nebraska plains.

Highlighting the continued surge in international travel to Boston, Gov. Charlie Baker joined with tourism officials Friday at a hotel near Logan International Airport to recognize a record increase in visitors last year and the impact it has had on the state.

Milford-based Atlas Travel has acquired United Travel Inc. of Tewksbury, Atlas Travel & Technology Group announced Thursday.

The group that sought to bring the 2024 Summer Olympic Games to Boston said Tuesday the state-commissioned report that identified sources of risk to state taxpayers contains "several" errors and misrepresentations.

(UPDATED at 1:52 p.m.) USRowing's Masters National Championships is returning to Lake Quinsigamond next year, Destination Worcester said today. The competition will be held Aug. 18-21 and will be hosted by Destination Worcester and the Quinsigamond Rowing Association.

Plans to enlist private developers to construct an athlete's village and new "Midtown" neighborhood that would become home to a temporary Olympic stadium created the "biggest sources of risk" in Boston's now kaput bid to host the 2024 Summer Games, an analysis done for the state by The Brattle Group found.

Urban Kitchen and Bar on Worcester's Shrewsbury Street will close Friday, and the location will be leased to British Beer Co., a Massachusetts-based pub chain.