CEO'S Message: February 2021
Dear Team Richmond, The past few weeks have been a time of celebration with Lunar New Year, Valentine’s Day, and Family Day. With things looking a little different this year, many local businesses got…
Continue ReadingDear Team Richmond, The past few weeks have been a time of celebration with Lunar New Year, Valentine’s Day, and Family Day. With things looking a little different this year, many local businesses got…
Continue ReadingUpdate from Hotel Association of Canada The communication from the Prime Minister last week on the new accommodation and quarantine measures has created a fair amount of activity/questions/concerns…
Continue ReadingWe will be launching a mobile-exclusive Discover Steveston Passport to Richmond visitors and locals this spring to incentivize them to shop, dine and visit the merchants in Steveston Village. There…
Continue ReadingDear Team Richmond, As Richmond’s Destination Marketing Organization, we are responsible for keeping track of potential headwinds to our industry. There are many items we kept track of that are…
Continue ReadingStakeholder Training on Travel Trade FAMs There were no scheduled FAMs in January and February. Instead, Carol visited stakeholders to provide training on what is expected from a travel trade FAM…
Continue ReadingBusiness Development is in full swing as we started the year off with two very successful trade shows, some critical conversations and some great momentum moving forward. In January, we attended Go…
Continue ReadingJanuary was a busy month for the sales team! Continue reading for a recap of the major events the sales team attended – Tete-a-Tete, Destination Direct Canada and RCMA Emerge. Tete-a-Tete — Ottawa…
Continue Readinggo2HR – BC’s tourism human resource association – has secured advertising spots on Global TV to promote jobs in BC’s tourism industry. From February 11 - March 3, these ads will be on Global BC and BC…
Continue ReadingTourism Richmond created the Cooperative Marketing Investment Program in 2017 to invest in industry-lead marketing partnerships that foster collaboration within the tourism industry. In our inaugural…
Continue ReadingDear Team Richmond, Our team’s been working hard behind the scenes to bring our new destination brand to life. You’ve seen our brand anthem video, you’ve read our business and marketing plan, you’ve…
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