Learn the skills to grow your business, your community, and tourism across Northern Ontario
The new TEN is almost here!
Tourism Excellence North (TEN) provides tourism operators, communities, and destinations with the knowledge, connections and training they need to grow and strengthen tourism across Northern Ontario.
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ONLINE TRAINING
Experience Fishing
REFRESHED for 2023! Experience Fishing is a Northern Ontario industry-led initiative that provides participating operators with the tools and resources needed to offer a standardized, safe, and unique fishing experience at their operations to non-angler visitors who are new to the experience of fishing.
This online course includes lessons that cover a range of subjects that can help you successfully develop and market not only the Experience Fishing program but can also be applied to other areas of your business.
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SELF-ASSESSMENT
Visitor Appeal Assessment Tool
Use this self-guided tool to help determine the readiness of your tourism operation to welcome and serve visitors. Take a deep dive into your own operations, visitor experience, and marketing and learn how to create a custom action plan for the future.
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ONLINE TRAINING
Improve Your Digital Health to Reach More Tourists
Starting your business’s digital journey can be intimidating if you’re new to social media and digital marketing. We’re not all operating at the same level — and we shouldn’t aspire to be. The good news is, there’s a place for every business and creator, large and small. This course will point you in the right direction on your digital journey.
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SELF-ASSESSMENT
10 Essentials of Successful Travel Products and Experiences
Have you ever wondered what tourists are looking for in a memorable experience? What are the key factors to creating a tourism product that people will talk about for years to come? This self-guided assessment will teach you how to create an authentic and unforgettable experience for each and every one of your visitors.
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OUR GOALS AT TEN
Strengthen the Northern Ontario tourism landscape
Give tourism operators the skills they need to grow
Create connections between the community partners and destinations
TEN training is already helping operators, communities, and destinations like you across northern ontario
As a resort owner, every tourism tool that I’ve taken through TEN has taken me to a new level. I think it’s an opportunity that every business should take.
Pat Peterson
Owner, Bruce Bay Cottages and Lighthouse
We came away with some great ideas about who we could target in the community, to work together to actually get a program launched.
Kathleen McGill
Office Manager, Whitesquall Paddling Centre
When I read through best practices, I see a checklist of what I have to do to have a good visitor experience in terms of a community, destination or route. That’s a really powerful thing.
Dr. Rebecca Pollock
Executive Director, Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve
