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Celebrate and support Alberta seniors

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This tip sheet provides suggestions on how Albertans can continue to celebrate, support, and keep seniors safe while respecting public health measures in place.

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Festivals and events tourism growth program : program guidelines

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The Festivals and Events Tourism Growth Program makes funding available to eligible organizations that deliver festivals and events to work with a third-party consultant to evaluate the festival... More ≫

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The Festivals and Events Tourism Growth Program makes funding available to eligible organizations that deliver festivals and events to work with a third-party consultant to evaluate the festival or event, identify tourism growth opportunities, and set clear steps towards growing the visitor experience, tourism revenues, visitation and organizational capacity. The result will be a Festival/Event Tourism Growth Plan that will help the organization realize the full tourism potential of its festival or event.

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A working guide to planning an event

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This workbook has been designed to help agriculture and rural organizations increase their effectiveness in planning a special event. Organizing a successful, worry-free event can be challenging... More ≫

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This workbook has been designed to help agriculture and rural organizations increase their effectiveness in planning a special event. Organizing a successful, worry-free event can be challenging for any individual or group. The steps to planning a week-long event or an evening seminar are the same: What do you and/or your organization want to accomplish? How are you going to accomplish it? After it is over, how will you know if you have accomplished what you set out to do? How much detail you have to organize will vary from event to event. Use the entire workbook or only those worksheets necessary for organizing important information. This master copy of the work book will allow you to reproduce the worksheets as your organization needs them. For some events, the “to-do” lists may not be needed. Keep relevant information together for future reference. The initiative and work of Rhonda Reid, district home economics at Edson, in developing the first draft of this workbook is...

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Guidelines : survey procedures for assessment of on-site spending at gated events and festivals

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These documents include guidelines and sample forms and questionnaires. The guidelines are designed to allow organizers of small and medium sized fairs, festivals, and events across North... More ≫

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These documents include guidelines and sample forms and questionnaires. The guidelines are designed to allow organizers of small and medium sized fairs, festivals, and events across North America to produce credible and consistent inputs for estimating their tourism economic impact and/or estimates of on-site spending, with limited assistance from professional consultants. These guidelines are most appropriate for events and festivals with 50,000 or fewer "net" attendees.

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Guidelines : survey procedures for tourism economic impact assessments of gated events and festivals [2005]

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These guidelines are designed to enable organizers of small and medium sized fairs, festivals and events across North America to produce more credible and consistent inputs for estimating their... More ≫

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These guidelines are designed to enable organizers of small and medium sized fairs, festivals and events across North America to produce more credible and consistent inputs for estimating their tourism economic impact. A new level of consistency and professionalism will be brought to this important measurement task as event organizers adopt the guidelines as minimum standards.

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Guidelines : survey procedures for tourism economic impact assessments of ungated or open access events and festivals [2005]

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These guidelines are designed to enable organizers of small and medium sized fairs, festivals and events across North America to produce more credible and consistent inputs for estimating their... More ≫

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These guidelines are designed to enable organizers of small and medium sized fairs, festivals and events across North America to produce more credible and consistent inputs for estimating their tourism economic impact. A new level of consistency and professionalism will be brought to this important measurement task as event organizers adopt the guidelines as minimum standards.

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Guidelines : survey procedures for assessment of on-site spending at ungated or open access events and festivals

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These documents include guidelines and sample forms and questionnaires. The guidelines are designed to allow organizers of small and medium sized fairs, festivals, and events across North... More ≫

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These documents include guidelines and sample forms and questionnaires. The guidelines are designed to allow organizers of small and medium sized fairs, festivals, and events across North America to produce credible and consistent inputs for estimating their tourism economic impact and/or estimates of on-site spending, with limited assistance from professional consultants. These guidelines are most appropriate for events and festivals with 50,000 or fewer "net" attendees.

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Program planning for organizations

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Take the time to develop a clear and meaningful program plan for your organization. Your image, performance and long-term success depends on it. Adapted from Program Planning for Organizations,... More ≫

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Take the time to develop a clear and meaningful program plan for your organization. Your image, performance and long-term success depends on it. Adapted from Program Planning for Organizations, 1989, written by Ruth Friendship-Keller, with the permission of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

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