Updates have been made to wine regulations in B.C. that will help provide consumers with more information about where their wine is produced. The B.C. government has updated the Wines of Marked Quality Regulation so B.C. wineries can more easily promote details of the wine that are specific to where …
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The Okanagan Wine Festivals Society is pleased to announce its new board of directors for the coming year. Newly appointed at the Society’s annual general meeting are: Daniel Bibby – Nighthawk Vineyards, Lindsay Kelm – Quails’ Gate Winery, Melody Schneider – Sandhill Wines, Raquel Merriam – Travel Penticton, Terry Meyer Stone – …
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Destination BC and the Tourism Industry Association of BC are pleased to open the call for nominations for the 2017 BC Tourism Industry Awards. These awards recognize excellence in the province’s tourism industry. Recipients provide outstanding service, exemplify best business practices, innovative marketing and deliver tourism experiences that contribute to the success of …
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It’s great news for Canadian tourism with double-digit growth in arrivals Overnight arrivals to Canada expanded by 13% in September 2016 and by 11% over the first three quarters of 2016. For more statistics and details on Destination Canada’s key markets, check out the September Tourism Snapshot. Read More Destination …
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Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) and HLT Advisory (HLT) released the 2016 Annual Report on Canadian Tourism. Focusing on the potential opportunity to target American travellers, this fifth annual collaboration reviews the parameters powering global industry growth in contrast to the perennial factors constraining Canadian performance. Insights from the …
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The B.C. government plans to hire more park rangers and open more than 1,900 new campsites to meet growing demand, the premier announced Monday. The province will spend up to $22.9 million over five years to create the new sites as part of the B.C. Parks Future Strategy. “B.C. parks …
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The world’s largest sustainability certification program for the tourism industry will now be helping Canadian tourism businesses to reduce their environmental impacts. Through a regular dose of complimentary webinars, white papers, how-to-guides and checklists, Green Tourism will help the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) grow and develop Canada’s tourism …
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We’ve all been in a situation where nature calls at a crowded event and an empty toilet is nowhere to be found. Airpnp is an experimental service that aims to solve this problem — by letting residences and businesses rent out their bathrooms to people in their immediate location who need …
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Wanamaker, a Philadelphia department store legend, famously said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” Because Big Data allows companies to serve up online ads (display, native, pre-roll, etc.) to people who’ve demonstrated interest while surfing, it sounds like the …
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How is your organization harnessing the power of social content? You don’t need a reminder that the world of content is changing and that visitors are creating content that used to come from the destination marketing organization. But with all that brilliant, user-generated content out there, what do you do …
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