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In 2021, Kelowna and area’s tourism industry posted year-over-year gains compared to 2020 but remained behind pre-pandemic levels due to the ongoing pandemic and weather-related challenges…
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The Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission (COEDC) recently released reports highlighting economic and job indicators for 2020, providing a look at our local economy and the impact of COVID-19 in our region…
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The 2020/21 winter season has been tough for the tourism industry, with hotels among the hardest hit—normal occupancy levels during the winter in Kelowna are around 40-50%, but this year they have been as low as 20%. In an effort to boost hotel occupancy by encouraging staycations through the rest of winter and into spring, Tourism Kelowna is developing new content features focused on the local market…
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As the global health emergency continues to impact the tourism industry, Tourism Kelowna continues to gather data and intelligence in order to monitor its local impact. …
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Tourism Kelowna is a data-driven organization, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have continued to monitor the impact that this health emergency is having on our industry. …
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It has been over five months since COVID-19 impacted our local, national, and global tourism industry. During that time, many businesses and entire industries have shifted focus to survive the pandemic. It’s been said that the tourism industry was among the first impacted, one of the most severely hit, and will be one of the last to fully recover. We are starting to get more research and data back about how our local industry has been impacted, how it has performed, and signals as to what may lie ahead…
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Tourism Kelowna's 2019 fall advertising campaign delivered strong results. The campaign included several tactics including television ads, online videos, social media advertising, digital native ads, e-mail marketing, online banner ads, and online travel agency partnerships…
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Hotel occupancy numbers show that Kelowna experienced a strong summer season this year. June, July, and August had an average occupancy of 85.3%, which is 5.7 pp (percentage points) over the same period last year, with August surpassing the 90% occupancy mark…
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Hotel occupancy levels for the first five months of 2019 are up over the same period last year, with four out of five months posting highest occupancy levels in over a decade.…
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Tourism indicators for the Kelowna area show that, despite weather-related challenges during the summer months, hotel occupancy numbers and the visitor economy have remained stable, virtually on par with 2017…
Kelowna is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the syilx/Okanagan people
Kelowna Visitor Centre:
238 Queensway
Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6S4 Canada
1-800-663-4345
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