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With concerns around cost and remote work, business travel has been the slowest tourism market to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. But one local tourism expert said the city is seeing more conferences and corporate meetings in 2025 than it has in years.
Michelle Groulx has taken on exciting new positions back-to-back, but something keeps drawing her back to the Ottawa Coalition of Business Improvement Areas (OCOBIA).
Declining numbers of Canadians heading to the U.S. for vacation could mean an even better tourism season for attractions such as Mādahòkì Farm, which had already begun to cater to more domestic travellers.
KTS Properties has filed an application to turn an eight-storey, 55,000-square-foot office building at the corner of Bronson and Carling avenues into a 70-unit rental complex with ground-floor retail space.
For the past three months, team members at Ottawa consultancy Alphabet Creative have gathered monthly in their boardroom at lunchtime with one goal in mind — to dominate at trivia.
The company is taking part in a new initiative organized by local non-profit Youth Ottawa, a “gamified giving platform” called Trivia 4 Tomorrow.