WAILC September 28th Workshop Invite

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The Power of a Great Experience - Sharing our stories and developing excellent travel and learning experiences. The Waabanong Anishinaabe Interpretive Learning Centre invites you to discover how experiential learning and tourism can work together to create personal, hands-on programs that share local stories and celebrate the places and people that make out communities special. Come and make connections with fellow members of your community and discover what roles you can play in sharing your story with a larger audience in a way that is sustainable. Join us in discovering how experiential programs for visitors and other groups can open up new opportunities in tourism, and education while creating benefits your organisation and the larger community. During this free one-day workshop, you will: Learn how experiential learning can be used to develop intimate and engaging visitor programs Explore successful approaches for developing quality visitor experiences Explore opportunities for partnerships both within and beyond your community for developing sustainable tourism offerings. Learn how to ensure your experiential visitor program appeals to travellers Experiential’ visitor programs can be a way for your community and/or organization to introduce the general public to community-based initiatives in areas such as traditional land-use, conservation, and cultural programming. Developing high quality ‘experiential’ visitor programs in your community is an opportunity to open the door to visitors in a way that doesn’t require major capital investments. Date: Monday, September 28, 2015; 9:30 - 4:00 Classroom A5 Winnipeg River Learning Centre 3 Walnut St., Pine Falls, Manitoba Coffee, refreshments and a light lunch will be provided PLEASE RSVP to Don Sullivan ([email protected], 204-292-0870) by September 14th, space is limited. Your facilitator: Dr. Heather Hinam is a graduate of the premier experiential tourism training program, the Edge of the Wedge, by the Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism in Newfoundland and has completed several workshops on experiential tourism development and the Explorer Quotient delivered by Travel Manitoba and the Canadian Tourism Commission. She has been creating and delivering custom experiences along the western shores of Lake Winnipeg since 2011 for guests from Winnipeg to the U.S. to as far as Australia and now shares her expertise through experiential tourism development workshops and one on one coaching.

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The Power of a Great Experience - Sharing our stories and developing excellent travel and learning experiences.

The Waabanong Anishinaabe Interpretive Learning Centre invites you to discover how experiential learning and tourism can work together to create personal, hands-on programs that share local stories and celebrate the places and people that make out communities special. Come and make connections with fellow members of your community and discover what roles you can play in sharing your story with a larger audience in a way that is sustainable. Join us in discovering how experiential programs for visitors and other groups can open up new opportunities in tourism, and education while creating benefits your organisation and the larger community.

During this free one-day workshop, you will:

• Learn how experiential learning can be used to develop intimate and engaging visitor programs• Explore successful approaches for developing quality visitor experiences• Explore opportunities for partnerships both within and beyond your community for developing sustainable

tourism offerings. • Learn how to ensure your experiential visitor program appeals to travellers

Experiential’ visitor programs can be a way for your community and/or organization to introduce the general public to community-based initiatives in areas such as traditional land-use, conservation, and cultural programming.

Developing high quality ‘experiential’ visitor programs in your community is an opportunity to open the door to visitors in a way that doesn’t require major capital investments. Date: Monday, September 28, 2015; 9:30 - 4:00

Classroom A5 Winnipeg River Learning Centre3 Walnut St., Pine Falls, Manitoba

Coffee, refreshments and a light lunch will be provided

PLEASE RSVP to Don Sullivan ([email protected], 204-292-0870) by September 14th, space is limited.

Your facilitator:

Dr. Heather Hinam is a graduate of the premier experiential tourism training program, the Edge of the Wedge, by the Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism in Newfoundland and has completed several workshops on experiential tourism development and the Explorer Quotient delivered by Travel Manitoba and the Canadian Tourism Commission.

She has been creating and delivering custom experiences along the western shores of Lake Winnipeg since 2011 for guests from Winnipeg to the U.S. to as far as Australia and now shares her expertise through experiential tourism development workshops and one on one coaching.