The new Skills Centre in Masset and the one soon to be in Queen Charlotte will offer business management courses. If you see some training that is not being offered, call both the Northwest Community College and the Skills Centre to see what can be created to suit our needs. The opportunity There are many opportunities here. With a bit of understanding about our visitors and planning and working together we can take advantage of the opportunities before we lose them. There are nine 'P's to tourism planning, but Packaging and Promotion are two where opportunities clearly lie.
Tourists often like to buy a package, especially if it caters to the stomachs and their minds.
They look for comraderie with others who have similar values, and for learning experiences, local food and drink, and they want this all offered at a time and location that best serves them. Two small business in Yoho National Park discovered this recently. One, a small cafe offering breakfast and the second, a guide offering birding tours, were both having difficulty finding people to buy their services. This package increased the success of both companies and offered a better service to the birders. An equivalent example here could be the fishing boat tour with a link to a seafood meal mentioned earlier.