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 training offerings.
Cultural Food Residency
Regrow, Regenerate, Reframe Would you like to incorporate elements of food and culture into your guest offering? Do you have an appreciation for locally grown or foraged food that you would like to share with your guests? Are there stories and values that you would like to weave throughout your guest experiences? Join Chef, Outdoorsperson,…
Webinar: Looking at Labour Costs Differently
Labour costs can be one of the most challenging things to manage within your operation. This sixty minute webinar will explore how compartmentalizing data can drive revenue and improve your labour cost results. Our guest speaker, Jim Taylor from Benchmark Sixty, will discuss a range of concepts to help you re-frame your thinking and approach…
Making the Perfect Pitch: Presentation Skills for Business and Personal Success
Do you get nervous each time you are due to give a presentation? Do you struggle to organize your thoughts? Do you dread the Q&A period? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, read on! The Program Making the Perfect Pitch is a series of three interactive webinars designed to…
Sandbox Sessions – Fall 2023
The Sandbox Sessions have been designed to bring together small groups of industry colleagues to “play” around with a series of FREE themed sessions delivered in a very informal and interactive setting. Each session will be led by an industry leader who will provide a brief presentation on a practice or idea they have been…
Festivals and Events Learning Series
Festivals and events are an an integral part of the fabric of many communities in Canada and an important component of the tourism industry. GMIST is excited to be working with Festivals & Events Ontario (FEO) again this fall to offer two more FREE learning sessions to help festival & events managers, organizers and developers…
Online Digital Storytelling
Oct - Nov, 2023
The Program GMIST is excited to be partnering with the globally recognized and awarded Story Center out of Berkeley, California to offer their popular Online Digital Storytelling program via ZOOM. Join us for our second version of StoryCenter’s well travelled workshop that has you conceive a story, write a narration, record and edit a 2-5…
Sandbox Sessions – Winter 2023
The Sandbox Sessions have been designed to bring together small groups of industry colleagues to “play” around with a series of FREE themed sessions delivered in a very informal and interactive setting. Each session will be led by an industry leader who will provide a brief presentation on a practice or idea they have been…
High Value Marketing – Moving Your Audience to Action
October 9th, 2023
There’s a lot of talk about the power of storytelling in building your brand and rightfully so. Great stories will set you apart from others and build loyalty by helping your customer feel a unique connection to you. The concept is really quite simple. So why does it feel so challenging to bring our stories…
ACTivate
Jan - Dec, 2024
Building Strong and Resilient Communities 2024 ACTivate Program Background and the “Why” After years of involvement and observation around community development initiatives we and many others continued to say the same thing -“there has to be a better way!” Why was it such a struggle? Why did we have sometimes 3 or 4 plans sitting…
LIFT
2024
Visitor confidence to travel is increasing and proactive tourism businesses want to be leading the way with new and enhanced visitor experiences to attract new and returning guests. LIFT is the only program of its kind in Canada, emerging from the pandemic, that combines the best of online and in-community learning with a unique design…