Learn the skills to grow your business, your community, and tourism across Northern Ontario

In person

Embark on a delicious journey this fall by attending Destination Northern Ontario’s Culinary and Agritourism Best Practices Mission. Throughout this curated trip, you’ll visit farms, restaurants, and food businesses, gaining firsthand insights from the operators who’ve built successful culinary tourism offerings. You’ll also learn from tourism leaders in Oxford County and Ontario’s Southwest, who will share how they have grown food tourism in their regions. In addition, you’ll be able to build relationships with tourism professionals from Northern Ontario. Don’t miss this opportunity to be inspired, make valuable connections, and bring fresh ideas back to your community!

Blended Learning

OTEC’s Empowering Leadership Training program is designed for tourism and hospitality sector managers and leaders seeking to improve leadership skills, empower their team, drive results, and champion growth. This training is currently being offered FREE exclusively for tourism and hospitality businesses. Seats are limited. Contact us at info@otec.org for more information or to register. Brought to us by OTEC and the Social Research & Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), this training features a flexible, blended learning curriculum that is tailored for two distinct tiers of leaders described below. This is a continuation of an SRDC project examining the implementation of the updated Skills for Success model. In this new program, employees will gain vital leadership skills, while businesses will discover strategies to help them implement their new knowledge into daily operations, ensuring lasting results and practical application of their skills – far beyond what typical training programs offer.

In person

Building the World’s Best Snowmobile Destination is a one-of-a-kind, unprecedented tourism development initiative led by Northeastern Ontario Tourism in partnership with Tourism Excellence North and Destination Northern Ontario. It is rooted in what defines us as Northerners: our deep connection to winter, snow, and the proud legacy of snowmobiling.

Personalized coaching

TEN’s Fast Track to Success (FTS) is a one-on-one coaching program, delivered by a skilled consultant retained by Tourism Excellence North (TEN) – called a TEN Trainer. Working with owners and operators at their business during their operating season, over a 24- hour period, the TEN Trainer provides practical and useful advice to improve the operation. The coaching opportunity includes a pre-visit survey, on-site visit by the TEN Trainer, recommendations that ‘can be implemented the next day’ and two post-visit opportunities for support.

ONLINE TRAINING

Experience Fishing is a Northern Ontario industry-led initiative that provides participating operators with the tools and resources needed to offer a standardized, safe, and unique fishing experience at operations to non-angler visitors who are new to the experience of fishing.

ONLINE TRAINING

Tourism Excellence North has partnered with Core Skills to provide free online self-led courses in Emotional Intelligence, Constructive Criticism, and Work-Life Balance, specifically designed to enhance career prospects in hospitality and tourism.