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Travel Oregon Tour Operator, Guide & Outfitter Online Forum: Pivoting Your Business and Tour Products
The following description was submitted by the event organizer.
Please note that due to fire and smoke impacts, the September 15 forum has been rescheduled for October 6:
Join Travel Oregon and Oregon’s professional tour operators, guides and outfitters on Tuesday, October 6 for our online forum: “Pivoting Your Business and Tour Products."
The forum will start with a succinct education session followed by questions and small group breakout discussions. Our speaker, Zachary Collier, owner of Northwest Rafting Company since 2009 and acting member of the Oregon Guides & Outfitters Association, will share practical ideas for modifying your procedures and tour products to ensure next season will be successful. The information will be broken into the following categories:
– Increasing income: how to leverage new products and alternative income sources.
– Protocol changes: how they affect your business.
– Collaboration: how to work with your competitors and community.
Following the presentation, participants will talk in small virtual groups to discuss how to integrate the ideas shared in the presentation across the industry.
The forum’s intended outcomes include:
– Learn key ideas to assist your business in staying successful long term.
– Understand how collaboration is vital as the tourism industry has changed through the pandemic and what your participation looks like.
– Share and hear business experiences in Oregon from industry peers.
– Meet and network with industry peers to support a more collaborative industry in Oregon.
Melanie Fisher, with Consulting Sensei, will moderate the session. Melanie specializes in business development education to empower tourism and recreation-based businesses. She is the current Communications Director for Mountain Bike Oregon.
This forum the third of a short series of Tour Operator & Guide Outfitter Online Forums being developed and hosted by Travel Oregon. Visit our industry website to learn more about this series and other resources for your business.