1st Summer Season Of Cannabis Sales Expected To Buoy Maine’s Tourism Recovery
MAINE PUBLIC - JUNE 2021
Maine’s summer tourism season has a new attraction this year with the first year of legal recreational marijuana sales expected to bring more people to the state, following trends in Colorado and California. A major marijuana retailer in Maine told a HospitalityMaine seminar Thursday that he expects Maine to see a tourism boost, with some visitors coming strictly on a marijuana vacation.
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Independent Hotels Utilizing Innovative Ways To Stay Afloat
FORBES - APRIL 2020
The current worldwide crisis has profoundly impacted not only the well-being of large segments of humanity, but global economies as well. In particular, the hotel industry has been dealt a severe blow from which it may never fully recover. According to a report by the American Hotel & Lodging Association, rapidly falling occupancy rates will have a devastating impact on jobs.
Migis Lodge receives largest solar array for a Maine lodging
MAINEBIZ - JUNE 2019
ReVision Energy installed a 912-paneled, ground-mounted solar array in Rockland, to provide power to Migis Lodge in South Casco. The array is expected to offset 95% of the lodge’s annual electrical power needs, according to a June 4 news release.
An Upscale Summer Camp for Grown Ups in Maine
WALL STREET JOURNAL - MAY 2018
DOES ANY IMAGE evoke summer more than a canoe drifting across a crystalline lake edged with pines? Just the smell of bristlecone brings back memories of splintery wooden docks, mint cool waters and the endearingly gloppy porridge served at sleep-away camp. At the Migis Lodge on the northwestern banks of Maine’s Sebago Lake, the Porta family has been re-creating that footloose feeling for adults and their own children—with make-your-own ice cream sundae socials and Bingo nights—since 1968.
Forget Montauk: Why Maine Should Be Your Modern Summer Retreat
BLOOMBERG - JULY 2016
An in-the-know crowd is heading up north instead of out east—and a clutch of new, stylish hotels are only one reason why.
History, luxury, and oh, that view
The Boston Globe - JUNE 2016
Are you looking to stay in a proper summer home reminiscent of the grand days of the 19th century? Look no further than the newly renovated Emerson Inn in Rockport, named after its most famous guest.