GMIST offers a full range of programs to help tourism businesses and destinations enhance their visitor experience programming within strong sustainable tourism practices. Below are a number of our current virtual offerings.
Destination: Story – Innovative Storytelling for Tourism Operators
October 4 - Nov 31, 2021
Destination: Story is a course designed to help tourism operators in Atlantic Canada regions use the tool of storytelling to communicate their personality, experiences, and core identity to engage digital visitors at every stage along their path to purchase. This course is an invitation to explore how to connect with visitors through storytelling by learning… Read More
Nature’s Table – Stories of Food in Nature – Online
October 13, 20, 27 & Nov 3, 10, 17, 2021
Nature’s Table is a collaborative online learning program that will explore the guiding principles and practices for developing unique culinary experiences in nature. Participants will engage with one another in a peer to peer sharing process to evaluate and provide feedback on concepts as we build out your culinary offering for 2021/2022. The program will… Read More
Story First Aid – PROGRAM IS FULL – NEW DATES WILL BE POSTED LATER IN FALL FOR 2022.
Open Intake
A little dose of help just when you need it – Please note this program is now full check back later in the fall for early 2022 dates. We could all use a little extra help, especially when we have a deadline or come up against a writer’s block so big it obliterates the sun. Maybe you… Read More
Atlantic Canadian Consumer Mindset – Free Webinar
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
Date: June 16th, 2021 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM AST (10:30 AM – 11:30 AM NT) Webinar Title : Atlantic Canadian Consumer Mindset This is a follow-up session to the one we delivered in January of 2021 on the shifting consumer mindsets of residents of Atlantic Canada, Quebec and Ontario since the pandemic began… Read More
Free Webinar: Understanding Consumer Mindset
January 20, 2021
Webinar: Understanding Consumer Mindset The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on economies around the world, and as we learned from 2020 – recovery in the tourism sector may take a while. How then do we move forward? What do we need to understand about our current consumer’s mindset when it comes to travel?… Read More