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With such a strong and growing tourism industry and a city average hotel room occupancy of 70 percent, the concern and resistance from the hotel and bed-and-breakfast industry about individual residents listing rooms for short-term rental on Airbnb or other…

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This artist’s rendering shows the AC Hotel proposed for the northeastern corner of Broadway and College Street. The prospect of several new hotels downtown has tourism leaders pushing for an increase in the Buncombe County occupancy tax.(Photo: Special to the…

Buy Photo Jon Clancy, left, and fiancee Susanna Smith stand on the porch of their future North Asheville home on Edgewood Road. The couple have had a roller coaster ride of searching, offering, contracting and losing houses in the city.(Photo:…

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A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., John Fleer was named one of the “Rising Stars of the 21st Century” by the James Beard Foundation and is a three-time finalist for the James Beard “Best Chef in the Southeast” award. His restaurant,…

Editor’s note: Reader interest in this topic has prompted Xpress to post the following longer version of the letter to the editor “Beer City, USA — or DWI City, USA?” which appeared in the May 20 issue and online. I have…

ASHEVILLE — As the summer season officially started this past weekend, visitation to the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2015 is already up over 11 percent from last year. Based on recently released 2014 visitor spending numbers, increased visitation on the…

Scott Randall guides a tour through the new Sierra Nevada Brewery in Mills River on Tuesday, February 24. The 90-minute tour leads guests through the 200-barrel brewhouse, giving a glimpse in to the entire beer-making process, and ending with a…