cultural tourism
ARTrageous Adventures offers arts and culture tour to British Columbia
ARTrageous Adventures is “Going for the Gold” this fall, announcing a five-day guided art and culture tour to Vancouver, B.C., Sept. 26-30. The tour, “ARTful Vancouver BC: A Cultural Journey of Olympic Proportion,” showcases Vancouver’s visual and performing arts, culture, and the Olympic legacy that has transformed the city. The reservation deadline is Aug. 1. [...]
Christina Lake: Kootenay Area to Benefit From Christina Living Arts Centre
Jim Thomson, Chair of the Southern Interior Development Initiative Trust (SIDIT) is pleased to announce the Trust’s support of the Christina Living Arts Centre project. “SIDIT’s objective is to support regionally strategic investments in economic development projects that will have long-lasting and measurable regional benefits for the Southern Interior” said Thomson. “SIDIT’s investment will make [...]
Kelowna: Mission Hill Family Estate Celebrates Summer
Mission Hill Family Estate is pleased to announce the start of a new series of culinary, fine wine and artistic activities. The season commenced with the opening of the internationally acclaimed Terrace Restaurant this past weekend with live jazz accompanying diners under the open air piazza. The season’s cultural highlight, is the exciting introduction of [...]
Vancouver Art Gallery Sets New Attendance Record: Nearly 100,000 Visitors
The 17 days of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games were the most highly attended in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s history. With line-ups that wrapped around Robson Square , the Gallery welcomed more than 95,000 visitors through its doors between February 12 and 28. “From Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man to Visions of British Columbia: [...]
Langley Township: Museum closure could harm tourism
Langley Township council is considering a two-day closure of the museum to shave $31,000 off the budget. In an attempt to reduce the 2010 budget, the Township of Langley is considering closing the Langley Centennial Museum (LCM) for Sundays and Mondays during the fall, winter and spring. The Langley Heritage Society has sent a letter [...]
St. Eugene one of BC’s most culturally authentic aboriginal attractions
The St. Eugene Golf Resort & Casino is one of five tourism businesses in British Columbia to receive the “Authentic Aboriginal” title, a new designation awarded by the Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia. The authenticity program recognizes the most culturally authentic, accurate and respectful representations of First Nations peoples and cultures in British Columbia’s tourism [...]
New experiments in 2010 media landscape
Will the 2010 Games mark a “turning point” for crowd-sourced event coverage? Two new websites are aiming high with less than five days until the opening ceremonies. The first, Vancouver [de]Tour Guide 2010, is an interactive city map created by local artists, cartographers and geographers. Coloured markers indicate areas of interest that might not make it [...]
Deposed tourism boss reinvents himself at Royal Roads University; Former CEO wonders if province has strategy to attract visitors
Six months ago Rod Harris was fired from a job he held and loved for 16 years. Today, leaning back in the chair of his new office at Royal Roads University where he begins a new career as adjunct professor in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, it’s clear he’s still stunned by the [...]
MLA touts 2010 boon
Just in time for the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics, the provincial government has revived the old slogan SuperNatural BC. “SuperNatural BC is recognized all around the world,” explained Tourism Minister Kevin Krueger. He was speaking at the Tourism Langley annual general meeting last Thursday. The Liberal government estimates that the direct economic impact of the [...]
Editorial Decisions now will be felt by tourism next year
The stock markets are up, housing starts and house sales are rebounding and politicians are saying the worst of the recession is over, all of which are good signs for the economy and by extension that is good for the tourism business. But despite the hopeful signs, the deficit positions the federal and provincial governments [...]
Discussing cultural tourism
In March a diverse Prince Rupert group joined Liz Lilly and Bruce Whyte of the Ministry of Tourism, Sport and the Arts to open a discussion about cultural tourism in Prince Rupert. Cultural tourism is about how visitors experience your community and how you present your community to visitors. In a way it’s a relatively [...]
Vision Vancouver council considers scrapping cultural plan implementation and cultural tourism strategy
The Vision Vancouver council, which campaigned in last November’s election on an arts platform, is considering scrapping the Cultural Tourism Strategy and implementation of the Cultural Plan in an effort to save money. At a March 24 council meeting, council agreed to approve the 2009 Operating Budget’s Interim Estimates “in principle”, referring them to a [...]
