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Summit County’s 5 Star Business Certification Program allowed 134 restaurants to open to indoor dining over the weekend.
The program allows restaurants to reopen to in-person dining at 25% capacity or 50 people, whichever is fewer, despite the county being in level red on the state’s COVID-19 dial. The catch is that restaurants have to comply with more stringent regulations than those required for in-person dining in level orange, including spacing tables and parties at least 10 feet apart, screening customers and employees for symptoms, and gathering contact information to help with contact tracing.
If Summit County eventually moves into level orange, businesses in the five-star program can operate at capacities associated with level yellow.
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As a major travel destination attracting millions of visitors each year, Breckenridge is typically marketed by the Breckenridge Tourism Office as a year-round vacation experience. However, amid the coronavirus pandemic, marketing has been dialed back and even eliminated depending on the state of the virus in Summit County.
The tourism office gave an overview of its marketing strategies for the next six months at its community update Thursday, Dec. 10, including various levels of outreach depending on Summit County’s position on the state’s COVID-19 dial.
“The (Breckenridge Tourism Office) and the resort, we are clearly squarely anchored in today’s immediate term safety messaging,” tourism office CEO and President Lucy Kay said at the meeting. “At the same time, we also have to keep an eye and one foot in the six-months-from-now camp because we know people are not traveling now especially in the last three weeks there have be