News & Resources
The latest Thompson Okanagan tourism industry news from TOTA, tourism businesses, and communities.
go2HR Offers COVID-19 Safety Plan Support as Tourism and Hospitality Businesses Prepare for Summer Season
As spring awakens across BC and our summer-based tourism and hospitality businesses are busily preparing for the new summer season, don’t forget to review your COVID-19 safety plan. The goal of your COVID-19 safety plan review is to ensure your written plan meets all current WorkSafeBC and Provincial Health Order requirements.
As spring awakens across BC and our summer-based tourism and hospitality businesses are busily preparing for the new summer season, don’t forget to review your COVID-19 safety plan. The goal of your COVID-19 safety plan review is to ensure your written plan meets all current WorkSafeBC and Provincial Health Order requirements.
Need help with your review?
go2HR’s COVID-19 safety plan review service helps tourism and hospitality businesses with their review. Our health and safety experts will review your safety plan and provide recommendations and targeted feedback to help ensure your written plan meets current requirements.
You can register for this complimentary service on the go2HR website.
What if I don’t have a COVID-19 safety plan?
If you don’t currently have a written COVID 19 safety plan, download go2HR’s COVID-19 safety plan template. The template walks you through the development of your customized plan and includes handy tips and relevant resource links to assist you in developing COVID-19 safety controls across your business.
About go2HR:
go2HR is BC’s tourism and hospitality human resource and health & safety association. go2HR empowers employers to have strong human resources and health & safety culture that supports strong business performance. The programs offer tools, information, and consulting services to elevate employers’ human resources and health and safety practices. We also offer education and training for current and future workforces. Finally, the go2hR team works as a resource to inform government, stakeholders, and communities on labour market conditions and strategies in relations to the tourism and hospitality sectors in BC.
If you have any questions regarding workplace health and safety or need support with any aspect of your COVID-19 safety plan, please contact go2HR via phone: 604-633-9787, email: safety@go2hr.ca or visit our Maintaining Your COVID-19 Safety Plan webpage. Our qualified health and safety staff are available to assist and we look forward to supporting you and your team.
Free Digital Support Services Now Available
The Digital Support Services Program has been developed to provide tourism businesses with one on one guidance to determine where you currently are digitally and where your business needs to be.
The Digital Support and Literacy Services Program has been developed to provide tourism businesses with one on one guidance to determine where you currently are digitally and where your business needs to be.
As part of this program, a digital marketing expert will offer complimentary services to:
Make urgent updates to your website, such as changes to your operations and the addition of your COVID-19 Safety plan
Claim your Google My Business listing
Set up your TripAdvisor listing (linked to the HelloBC listing)
Set up a social media account (Facebook, Instagram)
Provide recommendations on where your efforts should be focused now and into the coming weeks
Get support on onboarding onto an eCommerce platform and have fees covered for one year (up to a certain amount)
Now is the time to make sure your business is competitive and easily accessible to consumers as we move toward a time in the near future when our visitors are coming back.
Available for a limited time.
Inaugural Virtual Youth Summit on Climate Friendly Travel | April 29
SUNx Malta will host the first ever climate friendly youth travel summit in 2021. The ‘Strong Earth Youth Summit’ will focus on creating awareness of Climate Friendly Travel (CFT) and on fostering ways to encourage changes for a resilient Travel & Tourism future. It aims to promote climate hope in the recovery of the tourism industry through awareness and education, youth empowerment, and engagement and action.
The Strong Earth Youth Summit (SEYS) is named in honor of Maurice Strong, the architect of the Climate Framework and UN Sustainable Development for half a century.
The virtual event, held on April 29, will be in partnership with the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA), British Columbia, Canada; Institute of Tourism Studies, Malta (ITS); and the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO). Events will be held in three centres, with regional outreach - the Mekong for Asia Pacific; Malta for Europe, Middle East and Africa and British Columbia for the Americas.
Get ready for two full days of penetrating insights and a great line-up of speakers! The summit will highlight the urgent need for Climate Friendly Travel and spread the much needed message of Climate Hope.
SEYS will highlight the need for a clean and green post-COVID future for the tourism sector, in accordance with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and 2050 Paris Agreement. A full line up of sessions and speakers will follow in the coming weeks.
Why Climate Friendly Travel is important
Climate change is an existential threat!
The climate crisis requires urgent action across all sectors. Climate Friendly Travel (CFT) provides a conduit to the long-term transformation to a cleaner and greener Travel and Tourism industry. CFT will help businesses in the industry shift to more climate friendly operations.
