Travel Counsellor Fams
Experiencing your product first-hand greatly increases travel counsellors’ knowledge of your area and your product, allowing them to transfer this information to our visitors. Each spring, travel counsellors in provincially and locally–operated visitor information centres and Check In staff take part in regional product knowledge or fam tours. The tours are part of their annual training to enhance their knowledge of Nova Scotia’s tourism product. Tours are three to five days and involve 25 to 35 participants each. More information on this program will be available in early 2009. Timing: May-June Cost: Complimentary or reduced costs
Contact: Peter Johnson
Phone: (902) 424-2788
e-mail: Peter Johnson
Ici on parle français
Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture and the Nova Scotia Tourism Partnership Council invite you to become a participant of an exciting and innovative visitor service program which will enable you, the operator, to identify your business as one which offers french language services. By promoting your ability to deliver visitor services in French, you will gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, meeting the needs and expectations of an increasingly important market in Nova Scotia.
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Open Door Program
Promote your product to tourism staff who can in turn sell it to the visitor. Participating operators offer some form of discount or added value. Front-line staff, including travel counsellors with visitor information centres and Check In staff, must present their card to qualify for the discount or added value.
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Fair & Friendly Exchange Program
Here’s a tangible way to show American visitors that we appreciate the value of a dollar – and their valuable business. To participate in this program, you must guarantee an exchange rate within five percent of the current bank rate and display the Fair & Friendly material in a prominent location. The year-round program is promoted in the Doers’ & Dreamers’ guide and at visitor information centres.
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Visitor Information Services Enhancement Program
This program will enhance visitor servicing at visitor information centres (VIC) and in communities through theVIC Technology Upgrade and the Community Information Kiosk Program. Through technology upgrades, including new computers and related hardware, staff and visitors alike will have fast, easy access to travel information. The community kiosk program will help communities use the new Visitor Information Kiosk Kit to construct outdoor kiosks to provide visitors with 24/7 travel information year-round. More information on this program will be available in early 2009.
Who can participate: Non-commercial, not-for-profit organizations such as local development associations, municipalities and industry associations, boards of trade, chambers of commerce or other entities undertaking not-for profit initiatives; the appropriate regional tourism industry association must endorse funding requests.
Contact: Peter Johnson
Phone: (902) 424-2788
e-mail: Peter Johnson