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BACKGROUNDER A Destination BC Co-op Marketing Partnerships Program 2018/19 Participating Communities (*DMO= Destination Marketing Organisation)

Consortium Region Approved DBC Funding Gold Rush Circle Route (CRD Electoral Area C, CRD Electoral Area F, District of Wells, Chilcotin $10,000 Likely & District Chamber of Commerce, Coast Barkerville Historic Town)

Great Bear Project (Tourism Prince Rupert, Big Coast Productions Ltd., Hartley Bay, Klemtu Cariboo Chilcotin $64,000 Central Coast Adventures, Central Coast Coast Regional District, Bella Coola Valley Tourism Duncanby Lodge/Wuikinuxv Cariboo Calling(Explore Cariboo) (City of Williams Lake, City of Quesnel, Cariboo Cariboo Chilcotin $11,500 Regional District, , Williams Coast Lake Indian Band, District of Wells, Barkerville Historic Town) Gold Rush Trail (Barkerville, Wells, Quesnel, Xat’sull, Williams Lake, Cariboo Regional Cariboo Chilcotin $20,000 District (multiple electoral areas), 100 Mile Coast and , House, Clinton, , Bridge River Valley Coast and Mountains (SLRD Area A), Yale, Hope, Abbotsford, ) Cariboo Regional Project (CCCTA on behalf of the region) Cariboo Chilcotin $225,000 Coast

MyKootenays (Tourism Fernie, City of Cranbrook/Cranbrook Tourism, Tourism Kootenay Rockies $22,702 Kimberley, Panorama DMO, Tourism Radium, Fernie Museum/History Society, St. Eugene Resort, Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, Fernie & District Arts Council, Fernie Heritage Library, Fernie Chamber of Commerce, Museum, Sparwood Chamber of Commerce, Arts Council.) Travel (Invermere Panorama DMO, Fairmont Business Association, Tourism Kootenay Rockies $51,000 , Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, Columbia Valley Golf Association, Copper Point Resort, Fairmont Creek Property Rentals, Bighorn Meadows Resort, The Residences at Fairmont Ridge) Nelson Kootenay Lake (Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism (Nelson, Balfour, Ainsworth, , Kootenay Rockies $42,600 Meadow Creek, Lardeau) Lower Columbia Valley (Tourism Rossland, Red Mountain Resort, City of Rossland, RDKB Kootenay Rockies $32,100 Area A, RDKB Area B, City of Trail, Village of Fruitvale, Village of Warfield, Village of Montrose) Explore Rockies (Cranbrook Tourism Society, Kootenay Rockies $19,076 St Eugene Resort, Tourism Kimberley, Tourism Fernie, Airport, Pacific Coastal). Creston Valley (Town of Creston, Regional Kootenay Rockies $28,500 District of Central Kootenay Areas A, B & C)

Haida Gwaii (Misty Isles Economic Northern BC $49,791 Development Society representing four local governments: , Queen Charlotte, , and North Coast Regional District) Tourism Industry Business Owners Alaska Highway(NE BC) (, Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, Fort St Northern BC $36,760 John, Chetwynd, , , Hudson Hope, Taylor) Bulkley-Nechako (Regional District of Bulkley- Nechako, District of Houston, Village of Northern BC $12,137 , Village of , Village of , District of Fort St. James, Town of Smithers, Village of District of Vanderhoof, Tourism Prince George Tourism Smithers, Tourism , Tourism Prince Rupert, Regional District of Kitimat- Stikine, Kermodei Travel) Northwest BC (Regional Tourism Marketing Initiative (District of , Regional Northern BC $20,000 District of Kitimat Stikine, District of Stewart, Village of Hazelton, Kitimat Tourism, Nisga'a Lisims Government, Kermodei Tourism) Route 16 (Tourism Prince George, Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, Tourism Northern BC $47,000 Smithers, Kermodei Tourism, Tourism Prince Rupert, Regional District of Bulkley Nechako) Ski North BC (Tourism Smithers, Kermodei Tourism, Shames Mountain Resort, NorthWest Northern BC $15,968 Regional Airport, Hudson Bay Mountain Resort Smithers Regional Airport, Powder King Resort Cariboo Regional District, Barkerville, City of Quesnel, District of Wells, Regional District for Kitimat-Stikine) North Thompson Valley (North Thompson Valley Marketing Committee (NTVMC) on behalf Thompson $21,000 of Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD); Electoral Area “B”; Lower North Thompson Tourism Society (District of Barriere and Thompson-Nicola Regional District Electoral Areas “O” and “P”; Tourism Wells Gray (District of Clearwater and Thompson-Nicola Regional District Electoral Area “A”, Tourism (Village of Valemount) and Tourism Sun Peaks. /Big White (Regional District Kootenay Boundary Area C, D, E, Big Thompson Okanagan $84,627 White Tourism Society and Big White Ski Resort, City of Grand Forks, Village of Midway, City of Greenwood) Chain of Events (, , Thompson Okanagan $9,200 Summerland) Lumby Hwy 6 (Lumby & District Chamber of Commerce, North Okanagan Regional District Thompson Okanagan $5,000 Areas D and E, Village of Lumby, Monashee Tourism) Tourism Shuswap (Columbia Shuswap RD) Thompson Okanagan $57,500 Gold Country (Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Clinton, Lillooet, , Lytton, Merritt, TNRD area Thompson Okanagan $30,633 E “Bonaparte Plateau” (70 Mile House, Green Lake, Loon Lake) TNRD Area I “Blue Sky Country” Hat Creek, , Walhachin, TNRD Area J “Copper Desert” Country (Savona, Tunkwa Lake, Deadman Valley), TNRD Area M (Upper Nicola, Lower Nicola, Quilchena, Douglas Lake) and TNRD Area N (Brookmere, Aspen Grove). With boundaries roughly defined as: Jesmond, Lillooet, Kanaka Bar, Brookmere, Barton Lake, Lac Le Jeune, Bonaparte Lake and Green Lake) Similkameen Valley (Town of Princeton, the Village of , Okanagan-Similkameen Thompson Okanagan $18,250 Regional District areas B, G and H) Trail Trips (Tourism , Tourism Thompson Okanagan $24,000 Shuswap, Tourism Vernon) Explore Okanagan (Tourism Vernon, Tourism Thompson Okanagan $18,177 , District of , Oliver Tourism, Summerland Chamber of Commerce) Explore More Interior (Tourism Kelowna, City Thompson Okanagan $20,000 of West Kelowna, District of , Travel Penticton, Destination , Tourism Vernon / City of Vernon, Tourism Kamloops) Experience Nk’Mip (, Thompson Okanagan $93,500 Destination Osoyoos, Oliver Tourism) Armstrong/ (Armstrong Spallumcheen Chamber of Commerce (City of Thompson Okanagan $7,500 Armstrong) & Township of Spallumcheen) Sea to Sky Arts, Culture & Heritage Vancouver, Coast and $36,000 Campaign(Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton) Mountains VANPASS (Vancouver Attractions Group) Vancouver, Coast and $194,325 Mountains Tourism Alliance (West Coast Foods) (Visit , Tourism Vancouver, Coast and $72,000 , Tourism Langley, Tourism New Mountains Westminster, Tourism Richmond, Tourism Surrey (incl White Rock), Tourism Vancouver, Vancouver’s North Shore () Hope, Cascades & Canyons Vancouver, Coast and (AdvantageHOPE, Manning Park, Mountains $45,626 RD A, B and D) Sunshine Coast (Sunshine Coast Regional Vancouver, Coast and $178,250 District, District of , Town of Gibsons, Mountains Powell River Regional District, City of Powell River/Tourism Powell River, Local : Sechelt, Squamish, Tla’amin First Nations & Klahoose. Parksville Qualicum Beach Tourism, Tourism, Hospitality Association, Sunshine Coast Tourism/MRDT.) Regional Circle Farm Tour (Tourism Vancouver, Coast and Abbotsford, Tourism Langley, City of Maple Mountains $10,000 Ridge, Tourism , Tourism Harrison) Fraser Valley (Tourism Langley, Tourism Vancouver, Coast and Abbotsford, Tourism Chilliwack, Advantage Mountains $30,000 Hope) KidApproved (Surrey, Delta, White Rock) Vancouver, Coast and $20,000 Mountains Bowen Island (Tourism Bowen) Vancouver, Coast and $7,500 Mountains Scenic 7 (Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, Mission, Vancouver, Coast and District of Kent (Agassiz), , Mountains $10,000 Hope, Fraser Valley Regional District, Advantage Hope) Ale Trail (Sunshine Coast Tourism, Discover Vancouver, Coast and Comox Valley, Tourism (on Mountains, Vancouver $202,615 behalf of the City of Nanaimo), Island, Thompson (private sector), Tourism Victoria, Tourism Okanagan, Kootenay Whistler, The BC Craft Brewers Guild, Tourism Rockies, Northern BC Delta, Discover Surrey, Tourism New West, Tourism Langley, Tourism Chilliwack, Tourism Abbotsford, Tourism Kelowna, Travel Penticton, Vancouver’s North Shore Tourism, Tourism, Parksville Qualicum Beach Tourism, Tourism Kamloops, Shuswap Tourism, Tourism Vernon, Tourism Prince George, Tourism Smithers, Visit Prince Rupert, Kermodei Tourism, City of Quesnel) Nanaimo & Regional District (City of Vancouver Island $225,000 Nanaimo, Regional Distict of Nanaimo (Electoral Areas A, B and C) Comox Valley (Comox Valley Economic Vancouver Island Development, City of Courtenay, Town of $225,000 Comox, Comox Valley Regional District, Mount Alpine Resort, Tourism Mount Washington) (Alberni Valley Tourism Vancouver Island Association, City of , McLean Mill $12,109 Historical Park, Huu-ah-aht First Nations, Bamfield, Port Alberni Port Authority) Campbell River (City of Campbell River, Village Vancouver Island $50,000 of , Village of , Village of Zeballos, Village of Gold River) Vancouver Island North (District of , Vancouver Island Town of Port McNeill, Village of , $87,741 Village of , Regional District of Mount Waddington) Cowichan Valley (Tourism Cowichan Society Vancouver Island $175,000 (Ladysmith, Mill Bay, , , Duncan, ) Southern (Galiano Island Chamber, Pender Island Chamber, Salt Spring Vancouver Island $78,000 Island Chamber, Mayne Island Chamber, Saturna Island Tourism Association) Parksville Qualicum Beach (Parksville Vancouver Island $97,000 Qualicum Beach Tourism) Pacific Marine Circle Route (Tourism Victoria; Vancouver Island Tourism Cowichan Society; Region $40,000 Tourism Association/Sooke Region Museum & Visitor Centre; Sidney Business Improvement Area Society) Mountain Bike (Mountain Bike Tourism Sector $161,000 Association) Golf (BC Golf Marketing Alliance) Sector $250,000 Camping/RV (BC Lodging and Campground Sector $80,000 Association) Wine (BC Wine Institute) Sector $250,000 Ocean Boating (BC Ocean Boating Tourism Sector $27,780 Association) Fishing (saltwater & freshwater combined) (Sport Fishing Institute, BCFROA, Freshwater Sector $250,000 Fisheries Society of ) Guide Outfitters (Guide Outfitters Association Sector $72,000 of British Columbia) Snowmobile (BC Snowmobile Federation) Sector $37,400 Backcountry Lodges (Backcountry Lodges of Sector $25,000 BC Association) Gardens (Gardens British Columbia) Sector $20,800 Artisans (Société de développement $12,675 économique de la Colombie-Britannique Sector (SDECB)) BC Farmers Market Association Sector $30,960