Yay! The Online Tourism Training Program is one year old this month. I began offering this program when I saw a need for DMOs to provide training to their partners. One of my first DMO clients for this program said “Some of our members have a limited understanding of the tourism market, but we can’t expect them to know what they don’t know.”
Another client told me ” We would love to be able to offer a monthly educational program for our partners, but we just don’t have the bandwidth to pull that off.”
As someone with many years in the industry, I love to help others increase their professionalism and understand that their tourism business is truly a business. And businesses need training, processes, understanding of how sales are made and more. By providing these webinars via Zoom,( a year ago, when Zoom was a strange new technology to most) I have been able to partner with DMOs all over the country.
Here are two ways to try the Online Tourism Training Program
Join an upcoming Program
The Pennsylvania Bus Association has hired me to conduct a 3 webinar series called Take Action Today, Plan for Tomorrow. They have graciously offered to open the program to all my readers. Check out how you can join – even if you are not a PBA member.
The cost to attend for PBA Members is only $29.00 for the series and only $49.00 for non-PBA members. Links to join each webinar Zoom session will be sent in your email confirmation.All the webinars will be recorded so if you can’t make one session, or want to re-watch one, it will be easy.
Host a Free Webinar
Do you work at a DMO/CVB and have at least 200 active members? Would you like to have me offer a free training to your members? I offer two topics as free webinars:
- Continue your Career from Your Couch. Many of us are still home and waiting for our worlds to start up again. How about taking advantage of this time and taking action that will help improve your tourism Career? In this training, we will discuss ways to
• Build your network while being at home
• Learn the top 3 actions to take to improve your Linkedin Profile and why Linkedin is such a powerful business tool
• Get to know your clients- without seeing them in person
• How to learn a new skill for free.
2. 5 Steps to Get more Group Tours In this webinar, we will learn about Group tour requirements, pricing, product, and the types of visitors that tour operators target. They are a valuable market to pursue even as they change and evolve. We will share follow up resources with everyone. During this presentation, we will also touch on the tourism changes from COVID. There will be plenty of time to ask questions at the end – so come prepared!
Just reply to this email and we will set up a date for your training. My team will do all the work – we give you sample text and the registration link to share with your members, we manage everything the day of the webinar, and we even send out a survey afterwards which we share in a final report. It’s a turnkey solution for your education and training goals.
You can learn more about the Online Tourism Training Program here
If you are a member of a DMO/CVB and are interested in expanding your skills and knowledge, share this email with your contact at your Tourism office. They will appreciate it and so will I!