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Northern Ontario Tourism Summit –Speaker’s Spotlight, Brian Dykstra

How to Position your Business for an Effective Sale & Planning your exit strategy from the Industry
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Northern Ontario Tourism Summit – Speaker’s Spotlight, Justin Lafontaine & Darrell Schuurman

TGC’s LGBT Travel Market Seminar will provide valuable market information and an overall introduction into who the market is, what they are looking for, and how to reach them. The seminar is targeted to tourism businesses and stakeholders looking at entering the LGBT market, and provides an effective starting point for LGBT tourism strategy development.
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Northern Ontario Tourism Summit –Speaker’s Spotlight, Katie Speziale

if you need a business plan for financing, funding or just simply to ensure that you are on the right track this Business Plan Development workshop will offer you an excellent opportunity to receive an introduction to preparing a business plan, including the key components of the business plan; areas to focus so potential funders have less questions; and online resources that you can access to provide that key data that your funders are looking for to support your business plan.
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Invaluable Training Opportunities to Enhance your Business at no extra charge

The Northern Ontario Tourism Summit provides the opportunity to attend workshops the day before the summit begin at no additional cost. These sessions come as a bonus with your registration. We strongly advise that you take advantage of these workshops and better yet, secure your spot early.
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Northern Ontario Tourism Summit –Speaker’s Spotlight, Ted Putnam

what a lodge will need to have in place to support this new clientele? From boats and tackle to staff and guides. Ted will talk about understanding your fishery and techniques as it relates to targeting your fish on the fly and other critical components often overlooked.
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Northern Ontario Tourism Summit –Speaker’s Spotlight, Mike Jacobs

Mike will review trends for attracting the motorsports markets in Ontario, along with some of the major efforts of Tourism Northern Ontario (TNO), Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation (OTMPC) and other stakeholder associations to develop this market.
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Northern Ontario Tourism Summit –Speaker’s Spotlight,Kathryn Forgacs

Target marketing can stretch your marketing dollars further by effectively reaching your best potential customers.
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Northern Ontario Tourism Summit –Speaker’s Spotlight, Doug St.John

This new era of one-to-one advertising versus the conventional one-to-many advertising model is very exciting!
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Northern Ontario Tourism Summit –Speaker’s Spotlight, Colin McKeown

How to make the conversions necessary to accommodate fly fishing guests.
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Northern Ontario Tourism Summit –Speaker’s Spotlight, Beth Potter

Beth Potter, President and CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of Ontario, will explore some questions and help delegates look forward to the future of tourism as an industry and in partnership with government.
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