Events

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Indigenous Tourism BC and its tourism partners host networking events, training, workshops, travel trade and media events throughout the year. This section shares events that our team participates in or highlights opportunities for our Stakeholders to attend.

BC Tourism Industry Conference

March 4-6, 2020 – Victoria, British Columbia

For over 20 years, the BC Tourism Industry Conference has been providing a forum for tourism businesses and Stakeholders from around British Columbia to come together to learn from experts and each other about the key issues, challenges and best practices in the industry.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with other tourism businesses, communities and government leaders – share ideas, ask questions, network, learn, and explore!
To learn more and register: https://bctourismconference.ca/about/

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Grow Your Business with Google

Hosted by Destinations BC, the Grow with Google Program is on a mission to help small businesses grow and succeed online.

This program includes three informative workshops designed for small business owners featuring many free Google tools and resources to help you succeed in the digital world. As a program partner, Destination BC is working with the Regional DMOs to bring these workshops to a community near you.

Join us at one of the following locations. Seating is limited, so register early. Questions? Email [email protected]

100 Mile House on February 12, 2020.
Cache Creek on February 22, 2020.
Fort St. James on February 18, 2020.
Kelowna on March 26, 2020. SOLD OUT.
Quesnel on February 13, 2020.
Revelstoke on February 25, 2020.
Salmon Arm on February 19, 2020. SOLD OUT.
Smithers on February 19, 2020.
Vernon on February 20, 2020. SOLD OUT.
Williams Lake on February 26, 2020.

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Rendez-vous Canada

May 5-8, 2020 – Quebec City, Quebec

Indigenous Tourism BC will be promoting all of our BC export-ready Indigenous tourism experiences to domestic and international buyers at the 2020 Rendez-vous Canada, May 5th-8th in Quebec, Canada.

Rendez-vous Canada is an opportunity to collaborate with Canada’s tourism industry, get inspired, forge new contacts and strengthen partnerships across Canada. You’ll expand your network, learn new and creative ways to experience and market Canada from coast to coast to coast, and you’ll return home armed with the tools you need to market and promote your Indigenous tourism experience with confidence.

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Advanced Business Match Vancouver Island

In partnership with the Songhees Nation - March 16 to 18, 2020 - Lekwungen Territories, Songhees Innovation Centre, Victoria.

Advanced Business Match, or ABM as it is known, is a unique business matching forum that harnesses the power of relationships to create shared prosperity between Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous businesses.

The technology-facilitated format moves beyond traditional networking to provide strategic opportunities for deal-making. Community and business leaders meet potential collaborators online first, and then in-person, for projects in industries that range from natural resources, construction, tourism supply and services, manufacturing, retail and more, as they look to forge sustainable, prosperous futures.

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Developing the Indigenous Tourism Workforce

Spring 2020, Regional Community Forums

Led by Indigenous Tourism BC and funded through the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training’s Sector Labour Market Partnership Program, the Labour Market Research Project is inviting Indigenous communities and Indigenous tourism businesses to six regional forums held throughout BC. This research is to identify challenges and create a pathway to support Indigenous people’s participation in the tourism industry.

Who should attend:
- Indigenous tourism businesses
- Indigenous employees in tourism or who want to work in tourism
- Indigenous tourism and hospitality students
- Indigenous knowledge keepers and Elders
- Tourism organizations who work with Indigenous nations
- Tourism employers and organizations
- Education, employment and training staff and organizations.

At this forum, you will be invited to share your ideas to increase Indigenous people's opportunities to access tourism jobs and to strengthen our participation in the tourism industry.

Registration for a community forum in your region.

Advanced Business Match West

In partnership with Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and Indigenous Tourism BC - May 11 to 13, 2020 - Secwepemc Territory, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC.

Advanced Business Match, or ABM as it is known, is a unique business matching forum that harnesses the power of relationships to create shared prosperity between Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous businesses.

The technology-facilitated format moves beyond traditional networking to provide strategic opportunities for deal-making. Community and business leaders meet potential collaborators online first, and then in-person, for projects in industries that range from natural resources, construction, tourism supply and services, manufacturing, retail and more, as they look to forge sustainable, prosperous futures.

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