The latest news and information for members.
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BUSINESS INSIGHTS
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According to our next weekly forecast, January 16 to 22, there will be two known convention meetings. One meeting/exhibition, Chartered Professional Accountants British Columbia (CPABC) Career Week, will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre on January 19, along with the start of the Coastal Lunar Lanterns 2023 (January 19 – February 9) at Jack Poole Plaza. We are seeing an increase in hotel bookings next week along with a moderate change in air booking arrivals compared to the current week.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
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Unlocking Vancouver's Destination Competitiveness
February 16 | 11:45 AM | Fairmont Pacific Rim - Star Sapphire Ballroom
Building a successful destination requires a supportive local government, engaged leaders, and a well-established destination management organization coming together with a shared vision of sustainability and innovation. What makes a city compelling for visitors is also a city where people want to live, work, and create.
Royce Chwin, President & CEO of Destination Vancouver, will deconstruct the city’s visitor economy, the challenges that could affect our success, and what makes Vancouver competitive as a global destination.
Register here.
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DESTINATION VANCOUVER MEMBER EVENTS
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Webinar: 2023 Business Insights & Outlook
January 16 | 10 AM – 11 AM | Virtual
Join us for this first webinar of 2023 where we will share a recap of YTD 2022 Destination Performance along with an initial outlook for 2023 including current bookings, market updates and forecast. Following the presentation there will be an opportunity for live Q&A.
Presenter: Eugene Chu, Manager, Research & Business Insights
RSVP here.
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Webinar: De-escalation & Responding to a Crisis at Work
January 17 | 9 AM – 10 AM | Virtual
Join this informative, one-hour online training session to learn tools for de-escalation in the workplace. The tools learned in this session can help you to effectively respond to conflict and deescalate a crisis at work, including, but not limited to, challenging interactions with guests & customers.
Presenter: Maria Weaver, CMHA BC, Manager, Regional Suicide Prevention
RSVP here.
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Webinar Recording: 2023/24 Business Sprint
In December 2022, Destination Vancouver President & CEO shared a draft of our 2023/24 Business Sprint which provided overview of the market insights that are driving our business decisions and the key areas of focus for us moving into 2023.
Click here to watch a recording of this presentation.
For recordings of all previous webinars – please refer to our Member Resources page on our website.
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BUSINESS RESOURCES & ADVOCACY
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4 Steps Your Restaurant Can Take to Reduce its Food Waste Footprint
The Canadian food service industry spends $7 billion every year on food that it throws away. This blog post is part of a 2023 partnership with Metro Vancouver & Destination Vancouver to engage with reducing food waste in the food service industry. Learn more about FoodMesh here.
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The 7th Vancouver Tourism Facility Managers Association AGM
January 17 | 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM | Westin Bayshore Hotel - Marine Room
There will be a presentation by Vladimir Kostka from Fortis BC and Miroslav Kristof from IB Consulting & Technologies on the Custom Efficiency Program & creative ways to find Natural Gas savings for your facility.
The VTFMA is recruiting 3 facility manager members to the board. This can be a chief engineer, director of engineer or assistant team member working in a hotel or other tourism facility in Vancouver, Richmond, North Vancouver, Burnaby.
Appetizers and drinks will be served.
RSVP here.
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MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
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Conde Nast Traveler
Our 23 best places to travel in 2023 is a mix of old favorites worth visiting anew, and lesser-trammeled, even once-forbidden, regions ready to welcome travelers—yet they are all unified by highly anticipated new offerings and evolutions.
Afar
Travel to Vancouver, and you’ll see a different side of the city within every area you come across.
Lonely Planet
From sweeping coastal shorelines to craggy floating icebergs, glistening glacial lakes to the climbing canopy of ancient forests, Canada's enthralling landscapes continue to beckon wonder-seekers from around the globe.
re:porter (Porter Airlines Inflight Magazine)
Explore Chinese culture, community and cuisine in Vancouver.
Miss 604
With a huge dragon, lion dancers, drumming, and firecrackers, Vancouver’s annual Chinese New Year Parade (January 22, 2023) attracts more than 100,000 spectators to Canada’s largest historic Chinatown.
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED STORIES
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The Lunar New Year begins January 22, 2023, ushering in renewed prosperity, abundance, and connectivity.
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Meetings & Conventions – Generating Business in Today's World
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January 18-19, 2023 | Montreal, QC
Destination Vancouver is a long-time member of this committee, with Dave Gazley being the 2017-2019 chair. Destination Vancouver current board member, Joanne Burns Millar also sits on this committee. The committee provides direction, feedback and guidance in helping Destination Canada Business Events shape their strategy and investments. Dave Gazley will be representing Destination Vancouver.
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AMC Institutes Annual Meeting
January 25-27, 2023 I Orlando, FL
The AMCI's Annual Meeting is the premier in-person business event that connects their members, partners, and industry leaders in the association management world. Destination Vancouver is a Strategic Partner and Jackie Kavcak will be leading this initiative on behalf of Destination Vancouver.
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CESSE CEO Meeting
January 29-February 1, 2023 I Baltimore, MD
The CESSE CEO Meeting is for CEOs from the STEM community who will be exposed to cutting-edge ideas, share their expertise, and learn from colleagues in a safe space created by CEOs, for CEOs. In partnership with Destination Canada, Destination Vancouver is the first day luncheon sponsor. Jackie Kavcak will be leading this initiative on behalf of Destination Vancouver.
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Mexico Sales Mission and Client Event
January 30-February 3, 2023 | Mexico City, MX
This sales mission to Mexico is a great opportunity for the Destination Vancouver Meetings & Conventions team to make in-person connections with key corporate clients and industry contacts in this emerging market. Luke Snyder and Michael Drake will be leading this initiative on behalf of Destination Vancouver.
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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
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We're Hiring!
Are you, or is someone you know, looking for a career in a destination management and destination promotion organization? Destination Vancouver wants to meet dynamic, ambitious, collaborative and fun individuals to join our high performing team.
As industry leaders, our job is to promote the tourism industry in Metro Vancouver and generate business for our members through strategic, innovative and sustainable sales and marketing initiatives.
Destination Vancouver is committed to fostering an environment that is diverse and inclusive of people from all backgrounds, passions and interests and we invite applications from all qualified candidates. We are dedicated to providing an atmosphere free from barriers in order to promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Consistent with our values, we celebrate and welcome the diversity of all Team Members, volunteers, stakeholders, members, external contractors and partners.
Current Positions:
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