Tourism & Marketing

Local governments and First Nations are looking for opportunities to assist local businesses and industry in providing information, accommodation, transportation, and other services to tourists, as well as creating opportunities for buying and selling in their communities and regions. The following links provide information for local governments and First Nations about tourism and marketing.

Please note that the Province of British Columbia is not responsible for the material and/or content presented on any non-provincial government site listed below.

Resources

Asia-Pacific Twinning
Is a one stop source of information and resources related to establishing, maintaining and enhancing twinning or sister-city relationships between B.C. local governments and their Asian counterparts.
http://www.bcasiatwinnings.gov.bc.ca/

CommunityFutures.com
Lists over 200 community programs that are searchable by category, sector, and organization. These pages provide information on sources of funding and support primarily for social, economic, and environmental community development initiatives in rural areas, however the programs are not necessarily exclusive to rural.
http://www.communityfutures.com/cms/Funding_Sources.2.0.html

Resort Municipality Initiative
Was created to provide resort-oriented municipalities with new finance, development and business promotion tolls to enhance the resort sector in B.C.
http://www.cd.gov.bc.ca/lgd/gov_structure/resort_municipality/index.htm

Tourism BC
As a marketing-oriented organization, Tourism British Columbia's mandate is to promote the growth and development of the tourism industry through innovative programs and industry development initiatives
http://www.tourismbc.com/index.asp?id=1

Volunteer Futures
Is an annual training event for boards of directors from around the province, a forum where board members come together to learn, grow their organization and draw energy and inspiration from interacting with other volunteer leaders from BC’s voluntary sector.
http://www.volunteerbc.bc.ca/volbc/documents/flyer.pdf

Volunteer Vancouver Leaders Forum
Has now opened registration for their Leaders Forum 2009, which will include a full day training session looking at building better boards, staff management, the wired not-for-profit, mission-based marketing, financial empowerment, planning, and social entrepreneurship.
https://www.netforumondemand.com/eWeb/...