Tourism Kelowna Hosts Successful M&C Program Session
Earlier this month, our team hosted a review session with Tourism Kelowna's Meeting & Conference (M&C) Program partners to showcase 2024 activities and discuss the 2025 program…
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2025 Meeting and Conference Program Launched
Our Business Development team is excited to announce that Tourism Kelowna's 2025 Meeting and Conference (M&C) Sales Program is officially open for participation…
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Discovering Opportunities at INNOVATEWest: Tourism Kelowna’s Strategic Presence
This past week, I had the opportunity to attend the inaugural INNOVATEWest Conference in Vancouver, which brought together tech, enterprise, and corporate leaders for two days of thought leadership, connection and, of course, innovation…
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Showcasing Kelowna as a Business Events Destination of Choice for Vancouver Clients and Planners
This week, as a tie-in with the award-winning OKGo campaign, our team hosted a client event at Vancouver's VanDusen Botanical Gardens…
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Leveraging Kelowna's Agriculture Expertise to Attract Business Events and Investment
This past week, Tourism Kelowna attended the Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference West (AWC West) in Calgary alongside our OKGo program partner, Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission (COEDC). Together, we showcased our region's strengths and success in agriculture, aiming to attract meetings and conferences, new talent, and business investment to Kelowna. …
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Knowledge Base: Attracting Business Events by Promoting Industry Success Stories
While at first glance, the OKGo campaign might not look like a tool for meeting and event attraction, it is one of the most important tools in our toolbox. …
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OKGo Campaign: Phase Three Further Showcases Local Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Phase Three of the award-winning OKGo campaign, which tells the stories of innovators and entrepreneurs in key business sectors to raise awareness of the Central Okanagan’s economic and tourism opportunities, is officially underway, building on the success of the first two years of the campaign…
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2023 Meetings and Conferences Co-Op Program Launched
At the end of September, our Business Development team launched Tourism Kelowna's 2023 Meetings and Conferences (M&C) Co-Op Program…
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OKGO Marketing Campaign Wins Big at 2022 Marketing Canada Awards
The innovative OKGo multimedia marketing campaign—a collaborative project launched in 2021 by Tourism Kelowna, Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission (COEDC), and Accelerate Okanagan—recently won four 2022 Marketing Canada Awards…
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2022 Business Events Update and Forecast
This year has brought the return of meetings, conferences, and events as pandemic-related health and travel restrictions eased and vaccination rates (and comfort levels) increased.…
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