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Penticton’s main tourism body has climate change, travel bans and changes to short-term rentals top of mind when looking at future challenges to marketing the city as a destination.
At a public city council meeting this week, Thom Tischik, executive director of Travel Penticton, provided an update on the organization’s activities including a a forward outlook. Travel Penticton receives taxpayer money to promote Penticton through the Municipal Regional District Tax.
On Tuesday, Tischik outlined work the organization has done recently including working to attract conferences and getting messaging about what Penticton has to offer out to other communities in Canada and beyond.
He also spoke about the future, highlighting “challenges and considerations” to their operations.
“One is climate change. It’s real weather events, heat domes, atmospheric rivers, droughts, snow conditions, big freeze events, these are all things that directly affect the…
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