SBC October 10th – Paul Nursey, CEO Destination Greater Victoria

Happy October everyone! It’s time for our Halloween month meeting…maybe I’ll admit that it’s finally Fall…LOL!

This month we’re going to hear, chat and learn about a vital & core Peninsula Industry sector that we likely haven’t chatted about at the SBC, i.e., agriculture, food processing and agri-tourism. Recently a Saanich Peninsula focused agri-tourism initiative funded by the Canadian Experiences Fund through Western Economic Development (https://www.canada.ca/en/western-economic-diversification/news/2019/09/investments-to-create-jobs-boost-tourism-and-help-entrepreneurs-across-western-canada0.html) was approved and will soon be implemented. The program was applied for and will be led by Destination Greater Victoria who received significant support this spring during the application process.

Destination Greater Victoria CEO Paul Nursey will be our main speaker at our Thursday, October 10th SBC meeting. Supporting contributions to this initiative will include a representative from CRFAIR (Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable), Country Bee Honey Farm, 10 Acres Farms & Restaurants and the Fickle Fig Farm Market.

This program will have both a leisure marketing component to drive travellers and also a capacity building and training component to help industries who are interested learn about and prepare to meet the demand for the very lucrative conference and incentive travel business segment.

As always, the meeting is held at 7am on the 2nd Thursday of every month at the Victoria Flying Club Dakota Café. Please join us on Thursday / October 10th / 7am and RSVP  john@harbourdigitalmedia.com only if you plan on attending.