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Spring 2020 was a challenging season for the tourism industry. The results we were seeing on our website during that time frame were a reflection of the general declines in our industry and an indication that the weeks ahead were going to be a struggle. The results we are seeing so far for the summer, however, show initial signs of recovery…
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Safety is top of mind for everyone these days. As consumers and health regions continue to take note of health and safety operations, it is imperative that Kelowna and area businesses continue to strive for the high level of service that we're known for. …
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With BC now in Phase 3 of its Restart Plan and summer in full swing, Kelowna will be seeing more visitors looking for things to do and places to stay, with many of them searching for information on our website…
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After having one of the best performing years ever for Tourism Kelowna's website, our team had to make significant changes to the site in response to COVID-19 to provide valuable information, to support our local tourism-related businesses and promote them to consumers, and to inspire future travel. Moving forward, we will need to continue working together to ensure travellers have all the information they need to feel comfortable and safe when booking their next trip to Kelowna.…
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The past months have been challenging for all within the tourism industry, with many changes taking place for each business. Now, as provincial health restrictions are easing, businesses are reopening with additional safety measures in place—this is important information for us to be able to share when servicing visitor requests and when travellers are researching for future trips to Kelowna…
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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. …
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For the first time ever, Tourism Kelowna's website has received over 1 million visits (sessions) over the period of a year…
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Tourism Kelowna launched our newly designed website on May 14, 2019, seeing great success with positive performance metrics over the first couple of months. Now, the website has received international recognition with an Honorable Mention at the 2019 dotCOMM Awards in the category of Travel Website…
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Tourism Kelowna launched its newly designed website on May 14, 2019. The website underwent a major overhaul to make it a mobile-first design with stronger visual and design elements, incorporating Tourism Kelowna's brand colours and fonts…
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If you have landed on tourismkelowna.com at any time after Tuesday, May 14, you are experiencing the new Tourism Kelowna website…
Tourism Kelowna would like to thank Westbank First Nation and Okanagan Indian Band for the privilege to live, work, and play on the tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (land), that is the unceded and traditional territory of syilx Okanagan peoples, the original stewards of these lands and to whom we give thanks to as our hosts
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238 Queensway
Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6S4 Canada
1-800-663-4345
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