Celebrating Global Meetings Industry Day
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Each year, the business events industry across Canada joins in the Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) celebrations to recognize the sector's positive social and economic benefits…
Tag: meetings and events
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. …
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…
Leveraging Kelowna's Agriculture Expertise to Attract Business Events
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This year's Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference (AWC) was held virtually on November 22 and 23. The comprehensive two-day conference offered numerous virtual networking opportunities as well as the chance to learn about important topics affecting the Canadian agriculture industry. With…
Tourism Kelowna Attends First In-Person Tradeshow for Meetings and Event Professionals
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In late October, the Canadian Meetings and Events Expo (CMEE) was held in person at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. As the first tradeshow back at the venue, it was a momentous occasion on the road to recovery and one which I was excited to attend on behalf of Tourism Kelowna…
Reconnecting With Meeting and Event Planners in Vancouver
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Live events are making a comeback and Tourism Kelowna was thrilled to host an intimate culinary showcase for meeting and event planners in Vancouver on October 26.…
Knowledge Base: How to Maximize Lead Opportunities
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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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