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Explore the tourism assets, support services, infrastructure, and trends affecting tourism in your community to identify target markets and design tailored tour packages for maximum visitor engagement.
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What Tourism Assets Exist • Identifying community and regional assets that attract tourists or serve as necessary infrastructure and services for visitors
Tourism Assets • Natural and human-made features of interest to tourists • Themed attractions • Nature-based activities • Parks & natural areas • Festivals and events • Food/wine attractions • Ski • Heritage, arts & culture
Support Services • All Businesses that satisfy tourist needs • Guest accommodation • Restaurants and pubs • Transportation services • Parks and picnic areas • Tourist-oriented retail operations (banks, food stores, beer/wine outlets)
Infrastructure • What tourists expect as part of their experience, but do not normally pay for directly • Reliable water & power • Good roads and easy parking • Public amenities (washrooms, garbage receptacles, bike racks) • Clean, attractive communities • Public art • Effective way-finding signage
What trends affect tourism within your community? • Number and growth of visitors coming to BC • Visitor revenue • Visitor origin • Size & growth of different type of visitor experiences (gold, ski, heritage/culture, aboriginal etc)
Current and potential visitors • Determining the types and numbers of tourists currently and potentially visiting your community help identify Target markets • Target Markets are those you would like to attract in order to successfully develop tourism • Target markets vary; each with its own characteristics
Categorizing Target Markets • Geographic • Distance of Travel • Demographic • Guided vs.. Non-guided travel • Purpose of travel • Special interest travel • Mode of travel • Channel of distribution ( travel agent, motor coach tour, internet booking)
To Design a tour package for a specific target market Your tour may be in any part of the regional district To determine your specific market, you will brainstorm markets as a class You may work with a partner or group of three Task