Tourism Kelowna Welcomes Darby Svendsen to the Team
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On September 5, Tourism Kelowna was pleased to welcome its newest team member, Darby Svendsen, who will be the lead for Social Media & Content…
Tag: Social Media Influencers
Tourism Kelowna Welcomes Shereen Abbas to the Team
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Tourism Kelowna is pleased to welcome Shereen Abbas to our team, as she takes on the Travel Media & Communications role for the organization…
Knowledge Base: Working with Travel Media, Influencers, and Content Creators
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There are numerous ways you can spread the word about your business and its offerings, including working with travel media, influencers, and content creators…
Kelowna Media Placements: Winter 2022
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The excitement to travel has been building and with restrictions slowly being lifted over the past few months, published travel media articles have helped keep Kelowna and area top of mind for potential visitors. …
Meet the Tourism Kelowna Team: Carla Bechard
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Four years ago—on April 1, 2018, to be exact—Carla Bechard arrived in Kelowna after packing up and making the move from her home province of Saskatchewan…
New Kelowna Key Digital Passport Launched
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Tourism Kelowna has launched Kelowna Key, the fourth in the series of free digital experience passes aimed at connecting visitors with local businesses. …
2020 Media Review and Look Ahead to 2021
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Though 2020 wasn’t a traditional travel year, Kelowna and area did receive impressive coverage that will help in recovery efforts by keeping us in the mind of travellers for future trips. In addition, when province-wide restrictions were put in place in the fall, we worked closely with Destination BC to spread the “Stay local. Support local.” message. …
Answering Your Questions During COVID-19
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As we've been connecting with our stakeholders to collect and share information on the impact of COVID-19, we've received good feedback and questions. To help further, we'll take questions and themes and share them through this format. This first set of questions speaks to the need to temporarily pause our destination marketing efforts and increase our efforts to connect local consumers with businesses until we're able to market to visitors again. …
Sharing Kelowna with Top Travel Media and Influencers
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On January 23, I attended International Media Marketplace (IMM) on behalf of Tourism Kelowna, meeting with highly qualified travel media and influencers, mostly from the US and Canada…
Generating Interest in Kelowna & the Okanagan with Jillian Harris
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Millions of people following along on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and blogs were recently invited to enter to win a "Sip, Soar & Stay Kelowna VIP Getaway" courtesy of Tourism Kelowna, Wines of British Columbia, and local tourism businesses. This is the second year Tourism Kelowna partnered with local resident and celebrity influencer, Jillian Harris, on her much-anticipated 12-Days of Christmas Giveaways. …
Kelowna is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (land) of the syilx/Okanagan people who have resided here since time immemorial
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