Some hands on keys learning

Tourism Keys, Northern Ontario

Gros Morne, Newfoundland - time out for Adventure

the Creative Process, understanding what you do, who you serve and understanding customer needs and experience benefits is best done away from computers!

We've been busy: Almost 2500 businesses served in the past 36 months!

2007: Tourism Keys Internet Marketing Workshops have been rolling out across Ontario Canada. New in early winter 2007 we established the first Hands-on Two Day enhanced Workshops focusing on Web 2.0Internet Marketing strategies including blogging, image libraries, simple multimedia creation and hosting, map editing, social marketing and more. Workshops continue to roll out into 2008.

April/May 2006:

• April 25th: Beyond the City Lights Conference Keynote - Peterborough, On, Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs, Ontario

• April 27-29th, Dawson City, Yukon, Yukon Tourism Industry Association Annual Conference Keynote,

• April-June, Tourism Marketing and Research Program Design for Five Northern Ontario Cities

February/March 2006:

• February 1-9th: Dominica - Island Web Marketing at Jungle Bay Eco-lodge

• Tourism Keys Workshops in Haliburton, Midland, Bracebridge, Windsor, Sudbury, Penetanguishine and Prescott-Russell, Ontario

• March 1-8th: Edge of the Wedge 5th/6th session in Rocky Harbour NFLD,

• Tourism Keys Online Webinar - Frequently Asked Questions on Web Marketing.

January 2006:

• GuidetoAdventures.com Cluster Web marketing workshop and Tourism Keys program in Cornerbrook and St. John's NFLD. 

• Tourism Keys in Parry Sound, ON,

October / November 2005:

• 2-day Tourism Keys Workshops delivered throughout Northern Ontario,

• Haliburton, Ontario Tourism Web Marketing

• Two Tourism Keys III workshops for clusters and associations in Ontario

• Gros Morne Newfoundland with GMIST for Edge of the Wedge 3 & 4.

September 2005:

• Northern Ontario Regional Tourism Associations
  Five Year Tourism Strategy 2006 to 2010 Report contributer

Summer 2005: Wow, are we busy... taking some time to manage business at the Edge, Northern Edge Algonquin, which has grown by leaps and bounds with 100% of new business generated on the Web!

April 2005: Customized Web workshops and a Webinar for Economic Development enablers this spring. 

March 2005: Two weeks in Rocky Harbour Newfoundland with Celes Davar of Earth Rhythms, and Nancy Arsenault, Royal Roads University and Hatley Park National Historic Park delivering the Edge of the Wedge, a groundbreaking community development, experiential tourism program for Atlantic Canadian Tourism businesses presented on behalf of The Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism (GMIST).

February 2005: Designed a Web site for the Edge of the Wedge, Experiential Tourism Training Experience.

January / February 2005: Delivered 10 Tourism Keys Workshops throughout Ontario, Canada with Jill Vandal of the Tourism Co. providing training to over 150 tourism businesses.

January 2005: Completed work on the Tourism Keys handbook, co-written with Jill Vandal of the Tourism Co. for OTMP, FedNor and the Canadian Tourism Commission.

December 2005: Created a Web site and twenty online tutorials for Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership, FedNor, and the Canadian Tourism Commission: TourismKeys.ca

November 2004: Eco-North presentation in Thunder Bay, Secret Web Tactics Revealed.

October 2004: Ontario Ecotourism Conference presentation at Sir Sanford Fleming College: The Partnership Solution - how to work together on the Web.