Dan Christian

Expedia Group has announced a $100,000 USD investment in Canada’s Indigenous Tourism Destination Fund, reinforcing its ongoing commitment to Indigenous tourism development in collaboration with Destination Canada and the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC). The investment is part of Expedia Group’s Destination Giveback Initiative, aimed at providing financial support in collaboration with DMO partners to strengthen local tourism. 🇨🇦 #Partnership #ExpediaGroup #CommunitySupport #DestinationCanada https://lnkd.in/deFcev7U

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Expedia Group has announced a $100,000 USD investment in the Indigenous Tourism Destination Fund to foster economic advancement in support of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada and Destination Canada. The investment is part of Expedia Group’s Destination Giveback Initiative, aimed at providing financial support in collaboration with DMO partners to strengthen local tourism. https://bit.ly/3DiiRD0

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NEW ARTICLE: Social Sips Canada does not often get a seat at the table when global hospitality benchmarks are discussed. Québec City just earned one. Fairmont Le Château Frontenac now holds the highest number of Les Clefs d’Or concierges in the country, which matters far more than it sounds. These are the people who control access to a destination’s real experiences, including its wine, food, and cultural life. Read about it 👉 https://lnkd.in/g_9CdUw5 #fairmont #hospitality #lesclefsdor #quebeccity #canada

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There's a new, free tool worth exploring for Canada’s tourism industry. Aurora AI, Destination Canada's new tourism insight assistant, makes trusted tourism data easier to access — no dashboards or technical skills required.   Built on the Canadian Tourism Data Collective, Aurora AI helps operators, SMEs, DMOs and industry partners turn complex data into clear, practical insight they can actually use.   🔍 Traveller Twin: Ask who your best customers are, which traveller segments to prioritize or how to position a new experience 📊 Aurora Search: Quickly find research-ready data for pitch decks, funding requests and planning   For tourism businesses, this means faster decisions and stronger marketing, backed by trusted Canadian data. It's also free and available to the entire sector Explore Aurora AI. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eP753H9z #MyOttawa

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We’re delighted to share that Travel Counsellors has agreed to acquire and partner with The Travel Agent Next Door (TTAND), Canada’s leading travel agent community supporting more than 1,700 independent travel professionals. This investment strengthens our presence in one of the world’s largest outbound travel markets and supports our ambition for continued international growth. TTAND has grown rapidly over the past decade, earning an outstanding reputation for customer care, agent engagement and industry-leading performance. TTAND will continue to operate independently under its own brand and leadership team, led by founder and CEO Flemming Friisdahl. Both businesses remain distinct, while benefiting over time from shared insight, complementary strengths and a broader international footprint. In the future, TTAND’s agents will also have the opportunity to access elements of Travel Counsellors’ proprietary technology platform - including Phenix and TC Co-Pilot - supporting increased efficiency and enhanced personalisation for their agents and customers. Most importantly, this partnership is rooted in people. Two businesses. Shared values. One ambition - to deliver outstanding, personal travel experiences, wherever in the world our customers may be. Read more via the link in the comments. #Travel #TravelCounsellors #TheTravelAgentNextDoor #TravelIndustry

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Destination Canada is thrilled to announce an enhanced partnership with Tourism HR Canada to improve tourism workforce data. A new Memorandum of Understanding between Destination Canada and Tourism HR Canada seeks to: • Grow the sector and improve Canada’s competitiveness  • Strengthen both organisations’ longstanding collaboration on data collection and sharing   • Expand the depth and breadth of workforce insights to showcase tourism as a viable, long-term career path, with opportunities across diverse sub-sectors and beyond entry-level, and scope for career advancement  • Enhance public access to workforce data via the Data Collective, to deepen understanding of tourism employment as critical to vibrant local communities and economies  • Facilitate evidence-driven policy and planning, by empowering decision makers to implement policies and practices to build and support a thriving, future-ready tourism workforce Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gtauk4M6

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Yesterday at Tourism Industry Association of Ontario Summit we announced that Tourism Technology Co.'s Whereabouts is now the official technology partner for TIAO. Some of you may be wonderting tho - what is Whereabouts? We call it a Destination Management System. Build on 15 years of experience with the tech needs of destinations and sector orgs, it solves a few key problems that we all share. It provides a structure database for everything you might need to do. Directories of accoms, restos, POIs, events - and more. Lists based on that directory. "Widgets" - which is just an easy way to embed those lists anywhere. Events calendars. A lightweight CRM, to track and communicate and manage community and stakeholder engagement. A trip planner and itinerary builder. Reporting and analytics. And it integrates with whatever system you use through either widgets or an API. We handle all the onboarding, have support staff across North America, and pride ourselves on being true partners to destinations and sector orgs. So, if you've go 20 minutes - drop me a note and let me show you all that it can do for your organization. Or if you want - I can show you how it works for all the destinations across the continent who are using it.

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