Act Up!:
This partnership of five of Canada's top Experiential Tourism facilitators (including Celes Davar-Manitoba, Nancy Arsenault-British Columbia, Trent Shuman-Alberta, Terry McCulloch-New Brunswick and myself-Ontario) provides provides a nation-wide perspective on partnership development, leveraging community capacity, quality assurance, tourism research, community development, Internet marketing and niche marketing.  This consortium prides itself on helping communities develop real, organic, home-grown tourism experiences through engaging, interactive learning "Experiences". 

The tourism consulting services we provide are meant to be thoughtful, experiential, provocative, and innovative. We do not provide seminars, motivational talks, or lectures. From our perspective, we wish to see empowered business owners taking away practical tools, learning by experiencing, and having the confidence to try new things.

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Royal Roads University
Earth Rhythms
Corporate Quest Canada

Tourism Keys:
To say that we wrote the book on Customer Relationship Management using the web isn't an exaggeration.  We partnered with Jill Vandal of the Tourism Co. in 2004/5 to deliver 10 provocative Tourism Web / CRM workshops and write the manual on Internet Marketing and Customer Relationship management for the Canadian Tourism Commission, Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership and FedNor. 

In 2005/6, we'll be on the road again through Northern Ontario sharing basic and advanced level Internet marketing tactics with tourism providers and expanding our reach throughout Southern Ontario.

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Tourism Keys
The Tourism Co.
 

Sustainable Tourism Institute: 
As a founding member of this initiative with Jennifer East and Don Huff, our goal is to provide training for communities wishing to grow outdoor tourism in their community.  Often, competing interests for a fragile resource base make such development challenging even with the best Internet marketing strategy.  By leveraging partner capacity in communications consulting with environment and natural resources at the Federal and Provincial government level, media relations, and 30 plus years of experience in tourism business operations, this partnership is best able to grow the outdoor tourism capacity in your community.

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Killarney Mountain Lodge
Eco-site.com

Ontario Tourism Marketing based on Research: Workshops for Northern Ontario Communities
Chris Setchell, Jennifer East, Natalie Gara-Boivin and I are selected to provide training for Northern Ontario communities Spring 2006!  

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Killarney Mountain Lodge
Impagination