Share Your Insights to Enhance Resilience Planning Using Big Data
The Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) is supporting a study called “From panic to planning: Advancing tourism resilience through big data and smart destination practices,” which looks at the utilization and adaptation of tourism-specific, data-driven decision support systems in British Columbia.
The research is seeking Thompson Okanagan tourism business owners and operators to share their perspectives on the following questions:
Can a combination of big data, smart destination practices, social-economic resilience based systems thinking, and decision support technology enhance a tourism industry’s emergency preparedness and resilience planning?
Can access to big data, awareness of smart destination thinking, and access to real-time decision support technology help shift a reactive industry planning culture to one of proactive preparedness?
Share Your Insights
Insights will be collected through an in-person or video interview, over 20-60 minutes, depending on the number of insights and thoughts you wish to share.
Interviews will consist of a combination of offset questions and a free flow conversation. A list of these questions can be sent to you upon request.
To schedule an interview, please contact Scott Peters at Scott_Peters@SFU.ca or +1-778-878-2557.
About the Study
The research is being conducted by Prof. Peter Keller and PhD student Scott Peters of the Simon Fraser University Department of Geography, and is partially funded through a Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship Grant.
The information collected through stakeholder engagement will enable better understanding of local needs and priorities related to tourism planning and decision-making. The research will expand the utility of the Tourism Impact Portal, a data-driven decision support platform that integrates stakeholder feedback. This process will enhance the foundation of the system as well as fill in data and knowledge gaps, and allow for the development of a blueprint for scaling the program.
