Manic Monday | If you don't get involved you only have yourself to blame....
Over the past several weeks we have been forwarding a variety of chances to participate to stakeholders related to numerous upcoming opportunities that are being hosted or co-hosted through TOTA and our partners at Destination BC, AtBC, go2HR, and Southern Queensland Country. I wanted to take this week's Manic Monday to recap all of these exciting programs and plans for this fall that are available for you to consider. From marketing planning to education, regional development, employee recruitment, business knowledge sharing and networking, it will be a very busy and productive fall and one you should be sure to be part of. If you want more information, any one of the TOTA team will be happy to provide you with further details or will steer you toward someone who can help.
Destination Development Destination BC, together with TOTA, will be continuing to host workshops around the province towards the completion of a Provincial Tourism Strategy. The next phase in our region will take place in the Okanagan with sessions being held September 19th and 20th in Kelowna and Summerland. For more information or to register to attend, please contact Mike Overend at industrysupport@totabc.com
Post Wildfire Marketing Recovery Program
Community Tourism Representatives are invited to meet in Kelowna this Friday to bring together collective ideas for a post wildfire marketing recovery plan. We ask all communities to provide input to this meeting either through their attendance in person or by forwarding thoughts and recommendations for regional marketing activities. Stakeholders are also asked to forward recommendations toward the development of this plan which can be forwarded by email to Ellen Walker-Matthews at industry@totabc.com
Remarkable Experiences Program Now in its 3rd year, we are very pleased to advise that there will be three separate workshops in the region this year. The first a "community cluster" will take place in October and November hosted by the community corridor including Sun Peaks, Kamloops and the Shuswap. Our second cluster focused on "Culinary" will take place in December and January while the details for the final cluster are still being developed. For more information or to register, contact your one of the three Community Tourism Associations or Ellen Walker-Matthews at industry@totabc.com
Employee Recruitment - AlbertaOctober will see go2HR and TOTA together with a group of industry stakeholders travel to Alberta to commence recruiting for next summers employees. If you are not joining us on the trip, be sure to have jobs posted at the go2HR Job Board. We will be promoting all of the jobs posted throughout the region and we hope that every interested student will find possible jobs waiting for them in the Thompson Okanagan. For questions or more information on how and where to post your 2018 opportunities, contact Ginger Brunner at gbrunner@go2hr.ca
TOTA AGM and Summit Save the Date. This years Annual TOTA Summit and AGM will be held in Kamloops November 1st and 2nd and has an excellent line up of speakers on trending topics, current industry issues and practical hands on information that you can put in to practice immediately. Watch for registration opening this week.
Business on Tour - Stakeholder Business Exchange to AustraliaEver consider that there might be some creative new thinking in the land Down Under? You can find out first hand this November as TOTA takes a group of Stakeholders to Southern Queensland Country to meet with like minded tourism operators who share an uncanny similarity to ourselves but how they approach their challenges you may find unique and refreshing and you will definitely bring home new ways of approaching issues. Make sure to let us know you are interested as availability is limited. Contact Glenn Mandziuk ceo@totabc.com
We hope that one or many of the options available this fall will motivate you to take part. We want and need your insight, opinion and information and we guarantee you that you will learn not only from the presentations and facilitators but the numerous industry partners that you will meet along the way.
Get Involved....what is the worst thing that can happen if you do?
Glenn Mandziuk, TOTA President & CEO
