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This past week, the Provincial Government announced its partnership with local governments, non-profit organizations, and the hotel industry to support vulnerable British Columbians. …
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In March 2020, the Kelowna Visitor Centre received accessibility certification from the Rick Hansen Foundation, which is an organization that audits and rates businesses on the accessibility of their buildings and sites…
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This past week, Tourism Kelowna held its first-ever virtual Wine Trails program meeting, bringing together our partner wineries from around Kelowna and the Central Okanagan on a Zoom call. …
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As we've been connecting with our stakeholders to collect and share information on the impact of COVID-19, we've received good feedback and questions. To help further, we'll take questions and themes and share them through this format. This first set of questions speaks to the need to temporarily pause our destination marketing efforts and increase our efforts to connect local consumers with businesses until we're able to market to visitors again. …
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Despite travel media placements slowing due to COVID-19, our destination received some great coverage in March that reached provincial, national, and international audiences…
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Although face-to-face meetings and non-essential travel are not occurring at the moment, our Business Development team continues to connect with planners to generate interest in our destination for meetings, conferences, and events; we are also engaging with our stakeholder partners to support them during this time…
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Last week, in one their COVID-19 bulletins, the Tourism Industry Association of BC (TIABC) provided a synopsis of a webinar they attended, which was hosted by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. From this webinar, TIABC outlined a helpful list of 10 things small- and medium-sized businesses can do…
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve and is having a direct and significant impact on the tourism industry in Kelowna and around the world. Our plan is to help preserve our local visitor economy during these unprecedented times. When it is safe to do so, we will make an additional push to help local businesses recover, and will then develop our ongoing planning to promote our destination…
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Over the past couple of weeks, Tourism Kelowna's Visitor Experience team has made some changes to continue providing top-level service while connecting visitors and local residents to the businesses in our community that remain open with existing or modified service…
Tourism Kelowna would like to thank Westbank First Nation and Okanagan Indian Band for the privilege to live, work, and play on the tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (land), that is the unceded and traditional territory of syilx Okanagan peoples, the original stewards of these lands and to whom we give thanks to as our hosts
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238 Queensway
Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6S4 Canada
1-800-663-4345
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