Tourism Kelowna Update: Q1 2024
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We are pleased to provide you with updates from our team, including an overview of some key initiatives that took place during the first quarter of 2024…
Tag: business development
Meet the Tourism Kelowna Team: Jacqui Dowling
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Jacqui Dowling moved to Canada—Toronto specifically—in 2011 from her home in County Kerry, Ireland. The following year, she headed west to Kelowna when a new employment opportunity presented itself…
Destination Canada Launches Fund to Attract International Business Events to Canada
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Earlier this spring, Destination Canada announced the launch of a new, three-year International Convention Attraction Fund (ICAF) in a strategic move to bolster Canada’s global competitiveness in attracting major international conventions, conferences, and events to Canada. …
Bringing a Taste of Kelowna to Calgary
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This week, I had the pleasure of co-hosting an engaging Tourism Kelowna client event right here in Calgary. The hands-on event showcased the charm and opportunities of Kelowna to a targeted group of corporate and association planners…
Business Events Take Centre Stage on Global Meetings Industry Day 2024
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On Thursday, April 11, the business events sector took centre stage as we celebrated Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) 2024…
Tourism Kelowna Connects with US Market at ConferenceDirect's Annual Partner Meeting
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Tourism Kelowna was proud to attend ConferenceDirect's Annual Partner Meeting (APM), held from April 6 to 10, 2024, at the brand-new Loews Arlington Hotel & Convention Center…
Elevating Business Events in Kelowna through Agriculture
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Brought together by a desire to learn, network, and empower female voices, 350 women from across the agriculture landscape—producers, government, students, and agribusiness members—came together in Calgary, Alberta, for the Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference (AWC) WEST 2024.…
Tourism Kelowna Welcomes Vanessa Osborne to the Team
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We are excited to welcome and introduce Vanessa Osborne, who joins Tourism Kelowna's team as a Business Development Sales Manager…
PCMA Convening Leaders Provides New Business Event Opportunities for Kelowna
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In an exciting kick-off to 2024, I headed off to sunny San Diego alongside Delta Hotels by Marriott Grand Okanagan Resort's Senior Sales Executive, Kirsten Harrison, to represent Tourism Kelowna at PCMA’s annual Convening Leaders Conference as part of Destination Canada’s Team Canada…
Fall 2023 in Kelowna Highlighted by Major Events
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Fall 2023 was busy in Kelowna, with the city hosting two major events: BreakOut West 2023 and the Pan Continental Curling Championships 2023. To make things even more exciting, shortly before the Pan Continental Curling Championships kicked off, Curling Canada announced that Kelowna would be the host city for the 2025 Montana’s Brier…
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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