Klondike Development Organization is hosting a public forum on the subject of: Tourism Opportunities Identification and Product Development Facilitation.

Date: Tuesday, June 24
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Location: Downtown Hotel conference room

Objective:

To provide a public forum for discussion of opportunities, need & demand, quality expectations, and other aspects of the development of new or expanded tourism products.

Highlights:

1- The Dawson Region Marketing Plan, and relationships between available tourism activities and the way Dawson City can be promoted as a destination (Klondike Visitors Association)

2- Overview by Linda Huston of Holland America, Director, Land Excursions & Third Party Revenue:

· What Holland America sees as areas of interest for their clients in terms of activities, tours, experiences, etc. while in Dawson.
· Expectations of Holland America in terms of standards, registrations, insurance, etc.
· Process for pitching an idea to Holland America, including relevant contacts

3- Ways in which YG’s department of Tourism can assist entrepreneurs with product development

There will also be an opportunity to arrange short meetings between interested local product developers and/or existing companies with Holland America’s representative for the following morning.

We hope to see you there!

We are seeking expressions of interest from qualified consultants to facilitate our 2013-14 year-end independent review with the Board of Directors.

Request for Expressions of Interest

The deadline for receipt of expressions of interest is 10 am February 17, 2013.

We will be presenting the results of the land demand survey to Council tonight, and live on cable TV. The presentation can be found here.

Thank you to all the 78 people who responded to our Residential Land Demand Survey. 63 of you would like to buy land to build a home in Dawson and 10 possibly.

We will present the full results to City Council on Monday 6th January along with our quarterly update. Please join us or watch the live broadcast on cable TV. We will post the presentation on this site that day so you can follow along.

Happy New Year!

Would you like to buy land to build a home in Dawson?

The City of Dawson is considering options for land development. KDO is running this survey to help City Council understand the residential land needs of Dawsonites so that new developments will be matched to your needs.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DawsonLand

We have just completed our new Regional Labour Market Development Strategy. It lays out clear labour information and actions for us to work on with governments and our community partners as we seek to help residents, newcomers and employers succeed and strengthen our economy.

Remember, job postings can be filed and found at Klondike Outreach or full online postings can be filed at YuWin.

Our thanks to all the professionals and organizations that attended our meetings and offered their suggestions. Special thanks to all the employers that participated in our survey that was so essential to this strategy – the full results can still be viewed.

Implementation steps are already underway and we look forward to announcing our first actions very soon. You can find the full strategy here.

Thinking about trying some new methods for advertising jobs in your business this year?
Dawson’s local Business Advisor Dan Beaulieu has created a newsletter outlining recruiting resources that are easy and inexpensive to use:
Recruitment Newsletter-web

Klondike Development Organization is seeking expressions of interest to develop a new website for the purposes of increasing the capacity of our community to promote itself as a mining-ready centre, and develop an industry-specific online portal to increase the visibility of the array of products and services relevant to mining that are available in the region.

Please see attached REI poster and and get in touch if you would like more info.
KDO_MiningWebRFEOI_Poster