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Category: Articles
Beyond Green: How Sustainability Can Be a Core Value for Your Tour Company
For many of us, sustainability is no longer just a good idea – it’s a matter of self-preservation. Tourism is hit particularly hard by changes in climate, particularly in regions where weather is a major driver for tourists. Recently, a popular ski camp shuttered in Whistler, BC after nearly 30 successful years. As its founders […]
Written By | Nissa Campbell
Sustainability Resources for Your Tour or Activities Company
Let’s be honest. Embedding sustainability in all your business practices is challenging. All the companies we mention in our guide to sustainable business practices have stumbled at times. In many cases, they enacted the changes that led to their reputations for corporate responsibility because they messed up, or to make up for the damage they […]
Written By | Nissa Campbell
Define Your Company’s Core Values in 4 Easy Steps
What do you strive for in your day-to-day life? Honesty? Authenticity? Success? Security? Or something else? You might not know the answer offhand, but on some fundamental level, these ideas or ones like them factor into every major decision you make. They’re your core values, and they guide you. Consciously or not, successfully or otherwise, […]
Written By | Nissa Campbell
A Tour Operator’s Guide to Cultivating Motivation That Lasts
Common sense tells us that motivation is easy. If someone does something good, give them a reward. A financial incentive, for example. Then they’ll be motivated to keep doing that good thing. If only that were true. Psychologists have looked at motivation from every angle and keep coming back to one fact: incentives don’t work. […]
Written By | Nissa Campbell
Self-Care: The Most Important Skill Any Business Owner Can Learn
Running a business comes with huge rewards. Financially, quite possibly, and emotionally as well. There’s joy in creating something successful out of hard work and determination. There’s satisfaction in controlling your own path. But building a business can also be an exhausting endeavor. And when you put your business first, you often end up putting […]
Written By | Nissa Campbell
Learn to Create Share-Worthy Social Images in 5 Minutes or Less
If there’s one secret to getting more from your social media results, it’s this: images drive engagement. In fact, they drive so much engagement that each post shared without an image is a huge missed opportunity. How huge? Let’s look at the numbers: On Facebook, posts with images get up to 6.5 times as many […]
Written By | Nissa Campbell