Western DMO organized tourism talks on the Great Northern Peninsula

Friday, April 27, 2018

Over the last week, Western DMO organized its first two Tourism Opportunities Management Sessions on the Great Northern Peninsula.

 
On April 17th, at the Haven Inn in St. Anthony and on April 18th at the Sea Echo Motel in Port au Choix, the non-profit organization invited everyone with an inclination of facilitating growth in tourism to discuss the industry on the Great Northern Peninsula.

Another six meetings will be organized all through the rest of western Newfoundland.

 
Per its website, Western DMO, “is a non-profit organization whose role is to develop and market Western Newfoundland as a world class multi-season tourism destination.”

 
Mark Lamswood is the executive director of the organization. He informed the Northern Pen that it was a chance to get people from various backgrounds out to talk about tourism with each other, and not just with Western DMO and government representatives.

 
“It takes all hands to build a destination,” he said. “So, the storytellers, the narrators, the musicians, the crafters, the people that host hotels, gas stations – if you’re interested at all in the tourism sector, we put this invite out for anyone to join us and talk tourism.”

 
He explains that the turnout for the sessions were “really good,” with almost 30 people coming out to be present at each of them.

 
“There is so much going on and there are so many people involved in upping our game in tourism development all throughout western Newfoundland,” he said.

 
For the industry, Lamswood feels it’s an exhilarating time! And he believes the Great Northern Peninsula has some of western Newfoundland’s “most appealing landscape.”

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