GoBC Newsletter

Newsletter December 2008

Tuesday Dec 16, 2008

Hospitality Show Success & Conference Topics
Hundreds of attendees made the trip to visit our BC inspired booth at this years Hospitality Trade Show in Vancouver. The combination of shared success stories, new businesses who listed with us, and the very valuable conference topics made for extremely worthwhile event.

Event Door Prize Winners
We would like to once again thank all of the attendees that visited our Booth at the Hospitality Trade Show last month. For those of you who entered the Door Prize draw we pulled two lucky winners, they were...




Hospitality Show Success & Conference Topics

GoBC continues to be a leader in the tourism market place for British Columbia. It was obvious by "stunned looks" that the unlimited services offered, plus the additional exposure for all GoBC participants on www.canada-travel.ca make it difficult for businesses to dispute its value. To review the many "inclusive" services offered in an annual listing visit www.gobc.ca/advertise and be sure your business is taking full advantage of all of them! If you missed out on attending some of the conferences, there were several topics covered which GoBC also views as extremely valuable during this current economic state. Here are our GoBC highlights:

• 4 Walls / 4 Artists - is our twist on how to up-date & redecorate your hotel or B&B with art work for sale by your local artists. By displaying their work for sale your business has a fantastic, always refreshed look full of artwork that make incredible souvenirs for your guests. It is a win-win for both, you and the artists in your area.
  
  You can find hundreds of local artists around the province in all regions on GoBC. These individuals make their work, their studios and galleries a large part of tourist attractions for visitors. We would like to suggest that you consider buying or consigning their work for "sale" displayed in your rooms when re-decorating is being planned and for your gift shops. For more information or ideas contact the individual artists directly.
• Web Presence - is an ever growing topic and one we relate to closely. Our GoBC site operates under the perfected, highly optimized, client controlled system "SMS". Direct links, key content, avoiding flash, no third party advertising and excellent accessibility for our participants to make changes and updates, plus search engine optimization are just some ways you can be sure you are getting the most out of your listing on GoBC.
• Leisure Travelers - though the US is travel market has been declining, GoBC has been actively pursuing the European market as part of the company's sustainable tourism mandate set out when GoBC was founded 2003. All of our business listings are translated into German, the second most spoken language (after Russian) in Europe. 150 million people speak (or understand) German in several countries including Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and the Tchech Republic. We market directly to the German speaking market on our German website www.urlaub-reisen.gobc.ca where you are automatically included with your GoBC listing.

For questions about these or any other services and online exposure please contact Teresa at: 250-592-0546.

Event Door Prize Winners

Our two lucky winners receive one of the stunning small glass sculptures by Rick Silas. For more information on Ricks amazing corporate and interior glass sculpture displays and functional pieces please visit his listing on GoBC www.gobc.ca/sidney-travel/silastial-glass-ltd_346 or go directly to his website www.coldbentglass.com or email him at silasr@shaw.ca.

The lucky names are: Yvonne Grue of Gordon MacKenzie Architect Inc. (Vancouver, BC) and Mayland McKimm, President of Inn on Long Lake (Nanaimo, BC). Congratulations and we hope you'll enjoy these unique pieces of art to inspire your day-to-day routine.