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Rooms At The Inns, And Bed & Breakfasts

Vermont Public | By Patti Daniels,

Steve Zind

Published May 15, 2014 at 12:00 PM EDT

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Rabbit Hill Inn in the Northeast Kingdom town of Waterford.

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The country inn is the quintessential image of tourism in Vermont, but customers' expectations are changing and so is the experience that innkeepers are trying to provide.

Thursday on Vermont Edition, we look at the marketplace of inns and bed and breakfasts, and what it takes to create a successful travel destination. Our guests are Tim Piper of the Vermont Inn and Bed & Breakfast Association, Commissioner of Tourism Megan Smith, Janice Hurley of Bedandbreakfast.com and Leslie Mulcahy of Rabbit Hill Inn.

Also in the program: Tom Dee, the president and CEO of Southwestern Vermont Healthcare. Late last month, a hospital in North Adams, Massachusetts, closed with only three days notice. That left the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington as the closest regional hospital for many of the 38,000 residents of northern Berkshire County.

Broadcast live on Thurs., May 15, at noon; rebroadcast 7 p.m.

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Patti Daniels

Patti is an integral part of VPR's news effort and part of the team that created Vermont Edition. As executive producer, Patti supervises the team that puts Vermont Edition on the air every day, working with producers to select and research show ideas, select guests and develop the sound and tone of the program.

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Steve Zind

Steve has been with VPR since 1994, first serving as host of VPR’s public affairs program and then as a reporter, based in Central Vermont. Many VPR listeners recognize Steve for his special reports from Iran, providing a glimpse of this country that is usually hidden from the rest of the world. Prior to working with VPR, Steve served as program director for WNCS for 17 years, and also worked as news director for WCVR in Randolph. A graduate of Northern Arizona University, Steve also worked for stations in Phoenix and Tucson before moving to Vermont in 1972. Steve has been honored multiple times with national and regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for his VPR reporting, including a 2011 win for best documentary for his report, Afghanistan's Other War.

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