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 Community Services Department
Tourism & Culture Division
Visitor Services, Product Development and Marketing are the traditional
functions the Tourism Division has had responsibility for over the past
10 years. More recently, this role has evolved to include Culture in
the mandate, specifically work with the Owen
Sound Marine & Rail
Museum, the Billy Bishop
Heritage Museum and Special Events.
Exciting & New
Contact us for more information about the opportunities listed below.
Owen Sound Tourism & Culture Division
1155 First Avenue West, OWEN SOUND, ON N4K 4K8
(519) 371-9833 or toll free 1-888-675-5555
fax (519) 371-8628
vacation@e-owensound.com
Visitor Services
Our Visitor Services role involves operating the year-round Visitor
Centre in the old CN Rail Station at 1155 First Avenue West, and responding
to inquiries from our toll free line, website, mail, fax and walk-in
traffic. We provide packages to groups visiting the City, such as conventions
and sports tournaments. Events co-ordination is a large job, involving
keeping our Events Calendar up
to date, producing a bi-monthly events brochure and sending lists of
major events to be
included in a variety of publications.
Opportunities
- place your brochure on our Visitor Centre shelves;
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allow us to place Owen Sound & area brochures at your location;
- list your event in the Events Calendar;
- place your Event Poster on our bulletin board;
- list your business in the Owen
Sound Business Directory,
or
- link your web site to the Owen Sound site - ask your webmaster to
copy one of the logos from our Links page and link it to the City of
Owen Sound page at www.owensound.ca or the Vacation Owen Sound page
at www.owensoundtourism.com.
Product Development
Division resources are also dedicated to Product Development, working
with area tourism attractions, accommodators, restaurants and retail
stores to ensure we maintain or improve the kind of services and experiences
we are offering the traveling public and Owen Sound and area residents.
Our most recent project is bringing Customer Service Training to area
tourism operators.
Opportunities
- contact us for advice on setting up or growing a Tourism-related
business, developing marketing materials, packaging, etc.
- the Business
Enterprise Centre can offer you business-related assistance.
- if you are interested in a specific type of training for you or
your staff, email us at vacation@e-owensound.com and request we look
into
it.
Marketing & the Regional Partnership
Marketing the various tourism products offered in the City is done in
partnership with our neighbours, Bruce and
Grey
Counties. Producing brochures, organizing advertising campaigns, attending
trade and consumers shows
and web marketing are the main vehicles for the Owen Sound and area message.
Our Regional Partnership has evolved to a point where we are now holding
a brochure swap and tourism conference each year, conducting joint research
and database development projects, and producing regional “experience-based” marketing
initiatives that are second to none in their ability to attract audiences
from all over Ontario, the U.S. and beyond.
Opportunities
- contact us if you are interested in any of the following regional
partnerships:
- advertising
- travel trade and consumer shows
- Spring Brochure Swap
- Fall Tourism Conference.
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