Country Music Week 2025 Kick Off in Kelowna on September 10
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The Canadian Country Music Association® (CCMA®) recently announced that the 2025 CCMA Awards will take place at Kelowna’s Prospera Place on Saturday, September 13…
Category: Community & Visitor Engagement
Tourism Kelowna Quarterly Update: Summer/Fall 2024
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As a leading destination management organization, our mission is to collaborate with tourism businesses in the Central Okanagan to create a tourism economy that is sustainable and welcoming for visitors and residents…
Preparing for the 2025 Montana's Brier: "I Speak Curling" Event a Resounding Success
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In less than four months, Kelowna will host the 2025 Montana's Brier, Canada's largest and most well-known curling event. This marks the first time in over 50 years that the prestigious championship will be held in our city, and excitement is building across the community…
Get Involved: Showcase Your Business by Promoting Local Events or Activating Your Space
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As we approach the end of the year, excitement continues to build for the major events taking place in 2025: Montana's Brier and Country Music Week. While major events provide a fantastic opportunity to tap into a new consumer base, we know there are events of all sizes happening all year round, helping to create vibrancy in the community…
Kelowna Delegation Explores Country Music Week in Edmonton
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The countdown is officially on! Kelowna is one year away from hosting Country Music Week & the CCMA Awards, which will take place at Prospera Place in September 2025. In anticipation of next year's event, a delegation from Kelowna recently attended Country Music Week 2024 in Edmonton, Alberta. …
Destination Development Update: 2024 Priorities, Activities, and Projects
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Tourism Kelowna’s destination development journey started in 2019 and culminated with the release of the Tourism Destination Development Plan (TDDP) at the end of 2022. …
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Tourism Kelowna 2024 Spring Quarter Recap
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As a leading destination management organization, our mission is to collaborate with tourism businesses in the Central Okanagan to create a tourism economy that is sustainable and welcoming for visitors and residents…
Working Together to Promote Wildfire Prevention & Safety
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As temperatures are forecast to remain high in the coming weeks, our industry needs to continue working together to promote fire prevention and safety. At the same time, knowing where to turn for reliable information means we'll be prepared in the event of an emergency…
Tourism in Kelowna and the Central Okanagan: Summer 2024 Update
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It’s late July, midway through summer, and several tourism businesses have reached out to ask us how things are faring (and generally feeling) this year so far and into summer. While some of the data and research take time to get to us, and some sectors and industries may have different or unique factors, we can provide overall sentiment and broader themes…
Tourism Kelowna Supports the Community by Hosting Activations and Attending Local Events
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In addition to providing service to visitors and locals, our Community & Visitor Engagement team regularly hosts activations at the Kelowna Visitor Centre. The team also travels in and around Kelowna, providing mobile visitor services at numerous community events. Read on to discover what we've been up to over the past month…
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
Kelowna Visitor Centre:
238 Queensway
Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6S4 Canada
1-800-663-4345
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