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The Labour Day long weekend coincided with the final days of Meet Me on Bernard (MMOB) for 2021. The program, which saw the 200 - 500 blocks of Bernard Avenue open to pedestrian foot traffic only for July and August, had a very successful first year given the ebb and flow of permitted activation types, provincial health orders, and weather conditions…
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Our Visitor Experience Team recently participated in their first familiarization (FAM) tour since March 2020. Elevation Outdoors and CRIS Adaptive Adventures hosted the team last week at their Kelowna Bike Rentals location at the base of Knox Mountain near the overflow parking lot…
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This year’s Top 40 Under 40 Celebration, which will take place virtually on September 30, is particularly special to Tourism Kelowna as our very own Director of Visitor Experience, Chris Lewis, is among those being recognized…
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On Sunday, June 28, 2020, we will be celebrating two milestones at the Kelowna Visitor Centre—the centre's two-year anniversary as well as the launch of the next phase in our COVID-19 re-opening plan…
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Since temporarily closing the doors of the Kelowna Visitor Centre to in-person servicing on March 18, our Visitor Experience team has been busy connecting with local residents and answering visitor inquiries through online chat, telephone, and email, seven days per week…
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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 second set of questions delves further into our team’s work…
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Over the past couple of weeks, Tourism Kelowna's Visitor Experience team has made some changes to continue providing top-level service while connecting visitors and local residents to the businesses in our community that remain open with existing or modified service…
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With the COVID-19 public health issue evolving rapidly, and with the closure of several civic facilities, Tourism Kelowna will temporarily close the Kelowna Visitor Centre today, March 17, at 5:30 p.m. until further notice. This follows the closure of our Airport Information Kiosk and mobile operations, which occurred yesterday, March 16.…
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Sydney Solland, a Business Administration - Tourism Management student at Okanagan College, will be starting a new position in the Kelowna Visitor Centre this week. Sydney has worked as a Visitor Experience Specialist with Tourism Kelowna for the last 13 months and will be moving up to cover the Visitor Experience, Operations role for Morgan Hunter, who will be on maternity leave beginning May 10…
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National Volunteer Week took place across Canada from April 7 to 13. It gave organizations, including Tourism Kelowna, an opportunity to celebrate the immense contributions their volunteers provide on a daily basis…
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