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Sep 10, 2024 | Destination marketing strategy, Strategic planning
“If you slow down and bring people together and look for those connections and look for those similarities, then you...
E-bikes and Electric Zambonis are helping sports fans breathe easier in Vernon, BC
Sep 3, 2024 | Destination marketing strategy, DMO leadership
“The city's been slowly, as part of the City of Vernon's Climate Action Plan, transferring out all of our old city...
The next exponential solution? AirMiners and carbon removal
Aug 20, 2024
“The way that we remove politics and polarization is by building actual solutions [...] That’s how we take the...
The circumstances of change: Innovation at UBC’s Creative Destruction Lab
Aug 13, 2024
“We're not just doing something minor and iterative here. We're trying to radically disrupt for the positive benefit...
Hope and a reality check from Dr. Susanne Becken, sustainable tourism professor
Aug 6, 2024
“I think a value shift is needed. [...] This whole idea of regenerative tourism – that's taking off both with...
How guided tours help preserve nature
Jul 23, 2024
"People inherently want to protect things that they care about.” — Jared Garfield People are going to explore, and it...
Bottom-up solutions: The bike shop making Bend better
Jul 16, 2024
“I don't know if tourists actually have as much of an effect on the values of Bend as much as Bend has an effect on...
How regional tourism impacts Tribal lands: Bend and Warm Springs Reservation
Jul 9, 2024
“We look out for our land base because this is all we've got, and because this is all we have, we need to take care of...
Why “complete communities” make more sustainable places
Jul 2, 2024
“I think in order to take care of a destination, it has to be a true partnership with the community.” — Ben Gordon...
Learning from resident sentiment studies at OSU’s Sustainable Tourism Lab
Jun 25, 2024
“The goal, really, of sustainable tourism is to protect the destination for the next hundred, 200 years, so that...
How Visit Bend reinvests tourism dollars into sustainability and local amenities
Jun 18, 2024
“At Visit Bend, we think about regenerative travel like, how are we reinvesting the money that tourism brings into our...
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