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How Nashville is addressing overdoses in its booming tourism district

Catherine Sweeney

April 10, 2025

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Business owners and city officials in Nashville have implemented a program that uses an opioid reversal kit created in West Virginia to bolster harm reduction efforts in the city’s tourism district.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Acme, Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, drug overdose, harm reduction, Lower Broadway, Metro Nashville Police Department, naloxone, Narcan, tourism

What will a Snoop and Dre bar downtown mean for Nashville hip-hop?

jewly hight

April 2, 2025

Country music celebrity bars dominate Lower Broadway, and now Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre are opening the Still G.I.N. Lounge.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: hip hop, Lower Broadway, music industry, tourism

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

In the face of inflation, Nashville tourism breaks records

Cynthia Abrams

May 31, 2024

New numbers indicate the city’s hospitality industry is growing, even as tourism is slowing down across much of the country.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Deanna Ivey, hotel development, Nashville, tourism

NashVillager Podcast: April 15, 2024

Nina Cardona

April 15, 2024

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What does the sinking of the Titanic have to do with Tennessee?

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, tourism

Tennessee tourism deals could be kept secret from the public under advancing measure

Blaise Gainey

March 26, 2024

A measure backed by Gov. Bill Lee would allow the state’s Department of Tourist Development to make deals without making the public aware, and it has now passed the Senate.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, NFL, open government, tnleg, tnpol, tourism

Missing college student’s body found in Cumberland River; no foul play suspected

Kimberlee Kruesi, AP

March 22, 2024

Police previously said the 22-year-old Strain was last seen just before 10 p.m. on March 8 after drinking downtown. A massive search had been underway ever since, with just small clues available to help investigators trying to find him.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Cumberland River, downtown Nashville, Metro Nashville Police Department, tourism

Titans stadium deal inches forward with two key votes

Blaise Gainey

December 20, 2022

Nashville’s Metro Council approved a non-bindng term sheet and hotel occupancy tax increase to help offset costs for the proposed NFL stadium.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: development, East Bank, hotel tax, Metro Government, Nashville Metro Council, Tennessee Titans, Titans stadium, tourism

Nashville has banned alcohol on open-air party buses, so some operators are turning to plexiglass

Damon MitchellandTony Gonzalez

December 1, 2021

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A new ordinance banning open containers of alcohol on unenclosed party vehicles is forcing party vehicle operators to shake up the way they’ve been running their businesses.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: downtown Nashville, tourism, transportation

‘There’s No Shortage,’ Say Tennessee Hospitality Workers. They Believe The Industry Must Change.

Alexis Marshall

July 2, 2021

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Saturday marks the end of federal unemployment benefits in Tennessee — two months earlier than originally scheduled. Conservative politicians and some business groups have suggested that workers preferred to rely on those benefits rather than go back to working at businesses like restaurants and hotels. But hospitality workers and organizers say that’s inaccurate. Nneka Ebbe, […]

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: hospitality, Labor, restaurants, Tennessee Department of Labor, Tennessee Unemployment, tourism

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