Showcasing Kelowna as a Business Events Destination of Choice for Vancouver Clients and Planners
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This week, as a tie-in with the award-winning OKGo campaign, our team hosted a client event at Vancouver's VanDusen Botanical Gardens…
Tag: meetings and conferences
Tourism Kelowna Attends HelmsBriscoe's Annual Business Conference for the First Time
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For the first time, Tourism Kelowna attended HelmsBriscoe's Annual Business Conference (ABC), held this year from May 3 to 5 in Denver, Colorado. …
Tourism Kelowna Attends ConferenceDirect's Annual Partner Meeting for the First Time
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For the first time, Tourism Kelowna attended ConferenceDirect's Annual Partner Meeting (APM), held this year in late March at Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. …
Leveraging Kelowna's Agriculture Expertise to Attract Business Events and Investment
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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. …
Knowledge Base: Attracting Business Events by Promoting Industry Success Stories
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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. …
Celebrating Tourism's Bright Moments in 2022
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As we look towards 2023, let’s take a moment to celebrate some of the bright moments for our organization, local tourism industry, and community in 2022…
Tourism Kelowna Joins Forces with Six Destinations to Showcase BC at CMEExpo
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While the return of the Canadian Meetings + Events Expo (CMEExpo) this year brought excitement from meeting and event professionals, 2022 was especially noteworthy for Tourism Kelowna—for the first time, we joined forces with six other destinations (Burnaby, Kamloops, Richmond, Vancouver, Victoria, and Whistler) to create an Experience BC area, showcasing the best of BC to planners…
Tourism Kelowna Welcomes Nikki Robinson to the Team
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We are excited to announce that Nikki Robinson joined Tourism Kelowna's team on Monday, August 15, as our new Director of Business Development. …
2022 Business Events Update and Forecast
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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.…
Connecting with Kelowna's Key Economic Sectors to Generate Business Events
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Through the OKGo campaign, our Business Development team has highlighted Kelowna's success stories in key economic sectors to differentiate our community by providing extra value to meeting planners and delegates. These local success stories include agriculture and manufacturing companies from the…
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