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Nashville hotels seeing chart-topping demand for meetings and events

Char Daston

May 27, 2025

An event-planning company says the four U.S. hotels with the most demand from the event-planning industry are all in downtown Nashville.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: hotel, hotels, Nissan Stadium

NashVillager Podcast: More tourists, more hotel rooms

Nina Cardona

August 7, 2024

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Will we ever build enough hotel rooms to handle the demands of Nashville tourists? Plus the local news for August 7, 2024.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: hotels, tourism

Nashville’s growing hospitality industry

Anna Gallegos-Cannon

December 14, 2022

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Today we’ll talk with the people who keep our hotels running to find out what goes on behind the scenes of our city’s famous southern hospitality.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: hospitality, hotels

It’s busy season for Nashville’s hospitality industry. Here’s how it’s attracting workers despite record low unemployment.

Paige Pfleger

June 6, 2022

With CMA Fest just around the corner, Nashville restaurants and hotels are contending with record low employment to meet the demand of this influx of customers.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Business, hospitality, hotels, restaurants, unemployment

Tourists could foot the bill for new Titans dome under Nashville proposal

Blaise Gainey

April 19, 2022

The latest estimates show the Titans’ new, enclosed stadium will cost roughly $2 billion. Action taken by state lawmakers Tuesday puts the state and city closer to pitching in for some of the costs.    

Filed Under: Politics, Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: 112th Tennessee General Assembly, hotels, Tennessee Titans

Nashville Tourism Shows Signs Of Bouncing Back Over Memorial Day Weekend

Caroline Eggers

June 4, 2021

While Nashville’s tourism industries continue to face reduced revenues, hotel occupancy during Memorial Day weekend suggests a renewed desire for leisurely travel.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Butch Spyridon, hotels, tourism

Nashville Ready To Allow Small Conventions Again, But They Won’t Be Back Overnight

Blake Farmer

October 1, 2020

Music City Center

Nashville’s once-booming convention business is starting the long road to rebuilding. On Thursday, the city entered phase three, which will allow gatherings of up to 500 with special approval from the health department.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: conventions, Coronavirus In Tennessee, hotels, Music City Center

Nashville’s Hotel Prices Hit New Record. Is Change Finally On The Horizon?

Emily Siner

November 27, 2018

A photograph of a downtown Nashville hotel

Listen Nashville hotel prices hit their highest point ever last month: The average daily rate in October for the region was $162.55 per night, according to the travel data company STR.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Butch Spyridon, hotels

Nashville’s Hotel Boom Isn’t Over, But Experts Say Slowing Demand Is A Cause For Concernundefined

Chris St. Clair

October 30, 2017

Listen Nashville’s hotels might be growing a little too quickly. A recent report on the city’s hospitality market suggests that hotels around town may have some trouble filling the thousands of new rooms they’ve built.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: hotels, News

With High Demand For Hotels, Nashville Sees A Dip In Big Conferences

Emily Siner

August 14, 2017

A photograph of a downtown Nashville hotel

Listen For all the tourism records being set in Nashville, there is one area that’s lagging behind: The number of large conventions coming to town this fall is lower than in previous years, and tourism leaders say the city’s high hotel demand bears part of the blame.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: hotels, tourism

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