The Town Halls provide an opportunity to engage small and medium-sized business owner operators at a local level across Canada to better understand efforts being made on national tourism issues. The Town Halls will allow owner-operators to provide first hand input on issues affecting their business and the tourism industry such as; marketing, export readiness, government policies, financing and business development. The Town Halls will provide a front-line forum exposure for governments, TIAC, Destination Canada and event sponsors to collaborate with small and medium-sized business owner operators across Canada. 

 

 "The Tourism Town Halls are a great opportunity for meaningful dialogue between small and medium sized operators and industry decision makers," stated TIAC President and CEO Charlotte Bell. "With tourism being a strong contributor to the national and provincial economies, engaging with small and medium sized owner operators at a local level is critical to our industry's long term growth."

 

"We are pleased to participate in the 2017 Tourism Town Halls," says David F. Goldstein, Destination Canada President and CEO. "The Canadian tourism industry had a great year in 2016 and is on track to a record-breaking 2017. The Tourism Town Halls are a great way to check in and build alignment with tourism operators across the country."

 

 

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 - Waterloo, ON

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 - Fredericton, NB

Thursday, May 25, 2017 - Winnipeg, MB

Thursday, May 25, 2017 - Digby, NS

Thursday, May 25, 2017 - Percé, QC (Gaspé)

Friday, May 26, 2017 - St John's, NL

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - City TBA, QC

October 2017 - City TBA, BC

 

 

The Tourism Town Halls are sponsored by Air Canada, the Aboriginal Tourism Association of Canada, the Business Development Bank of Canada and WestJet.

Town Halls are also supported by the following local partners: Waterloo Regional Tourism Marketing, Travel Manitoba, Tourism Industry Association of New Brunswick, Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia, Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador, Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation, Alliance de l'industrie touristique du Québec and the Tourism Industry Association of British Columbia.

 

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For more information please contact:

 

Marcela Diaz
Director, Public Affairs and Communications
Tourism Industry Association of Canada
mdiaz@tiac.travel
t: 613-238-6378

 

 

About the Tourism Industry Association of Canada The Tourism Industry Association of Canada is the only national organization representing the full cross-section of Canada's $91.6 billion tourism industry. TIAC's members include air and passenger rail services, airport authorities, local and provincial destination authorities, hotels, attractions and tour operators.

About Destination Canada Destination Canada markets Canada internationally as a premier four-season tourism destination. In collaboration with partners in the Canadian tourism industry, Destination Canada creates marketing campaigns designed to showcase the best our country has to offer. Destination Canada also provides research and industry data to our partners-equipping them to optimize their businesses. For more information, please visit: www.destinationcanada.com, follow @DestinationCANand @ExploreCanada on Twitter.