Why a Tourism Café?

Over the past number of years, Nancy Arsenault, a product and market developer (Arsenault Project Solutions), Todd Lucier, a geek who lives in the middle of the woods at their family-owned tourism biz (Northern Edge Algonquin / Tourism Keys) and Celes Davar, an experience broker (Earth Rhythms) have collaborated to deliver transformative experiential travel training programs for the Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism and in a number of communities across Canada and in locations around the world.

In 2011, Todd and Nancy formed the Tourism Café Canada Ltd as a foundation to delivering meaningful industry training experiences to the tourism industry with a unique business model that is founded on collaborating partnerships.

Experiential travel, innovation and sustainability are cornerstones.

Our recently opened Website is also a social network –  Canada’s first industry focused network of tourism professionals.

Our Vision: To create a community of collaboration, partnerships and educational excellence for tourism training.
Just Opened: www.Tourism Cafe.org where we’re working with innovation at the core, including creating Canada’s first destination dedicated to tourism training, Canada’s first online experiential travel conference, new models of partnership and collaboration with tourism professionals and of course innovative training programs, cool resources, and network of top notch collaborating partners – like you!

We aren’t just talking heads. We work in the tourism industry and understand the challenge of providing meaningful, memorable experiences in the real world! Collectively, we bring a wide range of tourism experience, industry knowledge, research, and training expertise to the table – and we know others who do the same. We can see the differences that are being made by companies who attend our training and it is exciting and requests from around the world are rolling in!

To stretch our collective voice and connect with people interested in experiential travel, we started the Tourism Café  Blog to stimulate and share conversations that matter.

Here, we share our thoughts in:

• blog posts
• audio podcasts
• video interviews
• photo libraries

From time to time, we invite special guests to share their perspectives on tourism and we invite you to join in the conversation. Drop us a note, leave comments on our posts and invite yourself to the table. This is intended to be an open forum for conversations that matter. We hope you join us.

~ Nancy, Todd