The Idaho Travel Council distributed more than $5 million in grants this summer to nonprofits in seven regions, as well as statewide, to help further promote travel and tourism in Idaho. Grants ranged from more than $1 million to the ...

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Pat Rice has long hoped to see a full-service convention center headquarters hotel in downtown Boise with 425 or so rooms. That would serve the Boise Centre, where he is executive director. Instead, it looks like he’s going to get ...

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The Boise Convention & Visitors Bureau will build a visitor profile with the additional funding recently awarded to the bureau by the Idaho Travel Council. The Boise CVB got $742,500, its largest ITC grant ever and $55,500 more than last ...

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The Boise Convention & Visitors Bureau looks set to become an official entity of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce. The chamber will ask its membership in an Aug. 27 special meeting to vote on a merger with the visitors ...

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The Gardner Company is entering Boise’s burgeoning hotel business with plans to break ground on a 100-room structure by the end of the year. Gardener CEO Tommy Ahlquist, builder of downtown’s tallest building at Eighth and Main, wouldn’t say where ...

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