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As gathering and travel restrictions began to ease with BC's move to Step 3 of its Restart Plan, our team started seeing an uptick in requests from meeting planners across Canada. As expected, there has been tremendous interest in the fall of 2021, the entirety of 2022, and beyond. While the majority of inquiries are for smaller-scale meetings and events, typically under 80 people, we have had some larger conference requests as well…
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On Wednesday, June 23, our team, along with six Meetings & Conferences Sales Program partners—50 th Parallel Estate Winery, Cove Lakeside Resort, Delta Hotels by Marriott Grand Okanagan Resort, Eldorado Resort, Mission Hill Family Estate,and Ramada by Wyndham Kelowna Hotel and Conference Centre—hosted a wine- and wellness-themed virtual event for 16 BC-based meeting planners. …
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Every month, tourism-related businesses and organizations in Kelowna and the Central Okanagan join Tourism Kelowna's Base or Enhanced Programs. We want to take this opportunity to welcome these new stakeholders to our organization and introduce them to the rest of our network and industry. …
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On February 10, on behalf of Tourism Kelowna, I attended Tête-à-Tête, in a new virtual format this year. Hosted by the Canadian Society of Association Executives Ottawa-Gatineau Council, the event welcomed association and not-for-profit leaders, meeting and event planners, and government procurers from across the country. …
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With the return date for international travel still uncertain, Destination Canada's Business Events team has updated their website to provide meeting planners with more information on how they can plan and meet in Canada, safely. …
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In collaboration with Mission Hill Family Estate, our Business Development Consultants, Pat Gappmayr and Nicolle Gomez de Sousa, hosted 16 meeting planners from across Canada in a guided virtual wine tasting…
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Strategic Site Selection, an Ontario-based third party meeting planning company that deals with the corporate and association market, recently celebrated their 15 year anniversary with a virtual celebration on August 17…
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This summer, our business development team has been working to collect feedback from 16 planners who make up our group of Recovery Advisors…
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Tourism Kelowna had a very successful business development trip to Ottawa last week, promoting our destination as a location for meetings and conferences. …
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The past year we saw a strong interest in Kelowna and area from the travel trade market, with a 63% increase year over year of familiarization tours (FAMs) coming into our region…
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