Experience Asheville

Talking tourism with the incredible perspective it all brings to our beautiful city with General Manager of Biltmore Farms Hotels, Robert Foster. Greg has lots of questions about if the city can sustain the growth, the balance of locals to visitors and more. Robert shares a wealth of knowledge, both from his personal and professional experience, including the fact that there has been a 26% increase in hotel rooms and what he feels that means for guests coming in to Visit Asheville. He shares some of what is going on in terms of tourism growth, expansion in to new areas including the creation of 26k jobs and overall impact in Buncombe County and beyond. This episode is jam packed with fun facts too, like the Doubletree Hotel was the old Biltmore Farms Dairy, the amazing beer from Hillman Beer & Catawba and his fav restaurant which offers a Caliente Margarita and a Blood Orange Margarita (any guesses), What's up and coming, according to Robert, you'll have to listen till the end! --- Support this podcast