Six Nations Tourism

Six Nations Pictures

Wednesday May 26, Day # 16

Interview set for Six Nations, 3 interviews in total.

Everything went really well, a nice little campground on the river. Friendly staff and people.

Tourism Department very helpful for sure.

The band office interview was delayed as I have to filled out research papers before being allowed to conduct research project.

Great experience , wonderful to get a campground done.

Tuesday May 25 Day # 15

Spending most of the day at Niagara College today.

Meeting with Co-op coordinator, scholarship division and stopping by Research department.

Have to get some items from bookstore for my B.C. trip.

Phone calls and emails this afternoon.

Off to Six Nations for next set of interviews tomorrow.

Pictures

Friday May 21, Day # 14

Recording of information and organization of material from yesterday meeting and interview.

I am finding out this is a huge area of research, however it also gives you time to reflect on the interview and check facts from interview.

Long weekend and I am going to enjoy it!!!!!

Thursday May 20, Day # 13

Off to Ottawa. Meeting with Barry Parker Industry Advisor for Tourism,Trade, and Cultural Indian and Northern Affairs.

Meeting and interview went great, what a wonderful first interview this interview laid the ground work for the other interviews to follow.

Learn about product mix, different regions different products to offer. Each region, each province operate differently along with offering the product to the consumer.

Barry is truly very insightful into the history and culture of our First Nation people.

Aboriginal Tourism is a market that Canada can benefit from, furthermore each of the Aboriginal communities who are offering these Niche Tourism locations will benefit.

Great live interview, looking forwarded to continuing talking and chatting with Barry in the future.

Wednesday May 19, Day #12

Car is packed and ready to go.
Stopping at Jones Falls for the night and then into Ottawa in the morning. First live interview, very nervous for sure. Can not wait to get started, from here on traveling and interviews will be my summer.

Tuesday May 19, Day #11

Computer work and off to Toronto for testing.
Packing for Ottawa trip.

Monday May 17, Day #10

Booked flight to Kamloops B.C. today June 14 arrival. First two interviews in B.C. are set for June 15 and June 16.
Working on accommodations and travel plans for when I am there.
Lots of emails sent today and retested questions.
Planning , planning and planning it seems to be a big part of research.
I have to say best Co-op and summer program ever as it is starting to come together.

Friday May 14, Day # 9

Today presented the question to a consulted for the Federal government, more insight what to aspect in the live interviews. Which are starting on May 20th with the Indian and Northern Affairs department.

I am both excited and nervous.

Thursday May 13, Day #8

On the road today 4.5 drive to Tyendinaga for test interviews.

Interviews went well, learn a lot about the process of a live interview, what to look for etc. Ed has me well prepared and it showed today.

Toured Tyendinaga and took some pictures and stuff I will post some when I arrive back home.

Wednesday May 12, Day #7

Worked on "Call for Paticipation Paper" with Ed most of the day back and forth.

Wow did I learn a lot today on writing a paper, amazing what can be produced. Had a very productive day although can not wait to get out in the field and start interviewing.

Tuesday May 11, Day #6

Back to Niagara College this am, to meet with Mentor and supervisor Ed Brooker , really positive and interesting meeting. Went over everything that needs to be done before end of the week.

Travel Tourism Research Association (TTRA) call for participation paper needs to be submitted by Friday,earlier then we had thought but both of our schedules say we have to get it done and submitted.

Rough out schedule for British Columbia trip and the start of Ontario interviews.

Spent some time at the Niagara Regional Friendship Centre in St.Catharines.

Staff was wonderful helping me identify Aboriginal Campgrounds in Ontario, they had some we knew of and other that we totally new to me.

Monday May 10, Day #5

Appointments starting to come together.

Spent Most of the day at Niagara College today about the scholarship and tied up some details on the research project.

Phone calls to British Columbia during the evening confirming things.

Day # 4

Spent day doing administration stuff. Designing Logo,Business cards and Letterhead etc.

Long list of different things that need to be accomplished, need some organizational skills.

Visiting some locations next week, so I am very excited.

Pictures are ones that I used in my Niche Tourism research project at Niagara College last term.

When traveling to location all pictures used will be taken during my visits.

CTC News Alerts

Aboriginal Canada: a primer http://mediacentre.canada.travel/content/travel_story_ideas/aboriginal_culture


Got a tourism million-dollar question? Ask CTC’s Tourism BizWiz.

http://mediacentre.canada.travel/content/travel_story_ideas/aboriginal_culture

Day # 4

Today I visited the Hostel International location in Niagara Falls. What great, friendly, helpful staff. I was able to purchase a membership card that I can use for booking hostel on my research trip. Also you can get a deal on a Greyhound bus pass 15 days for the price of 7 days. Lots of deal in the package you receive along with membership. If you are traveling this summer this is a great item for sure. Contact Alex at the hostel to get hooked up with this card.
Head is starting to spin trying to figure out dates and a productive plan. Planning stage is huge part of this project never really understood how big a part it is, or how much is involved.
Phoning and contacting in a different time zone presents some interesting challenges too.
More and more research on computer and work is on going with the "Call for Participation Paper."

Day # 3

Day#3
Computer research work and working on writing for The Call for participation for TTRA. Lots of work on this as trying to figure out what is needed and required, a big learning experience for sure.
More and more emails and phone calls to British Columbia today and will continue for the next few days. Setting up schedules for park visits for mid June.
Now have to figure out which campgrounds are reachable for travel in a week to 10 day visit.
Hoping to have schedule in place by the end of week.

Day # 2

Day #2
Started with Scheduling of visits,still waiting on lots of replies. However starting to take shape.
Reading a lot of background material and reviewing
What we are doing? Where we are going? How are we getting there?
Finding that Marketing and Management classes are coming in very handy.

Shopping for supplies, Best Buy God I wish I was rich, items needed for interviews are starting to take shape.

First few interviews are set, practise one's locally done by end of week. After these local ones are done , need to review and reword question then off to Indian and Northern affairs in Ottawa for first official one. Serpent Mounds hopefully visit within next week or 10 days.

News Story Links

I just wanted to share some interesting and good news.

Within the last 2 weeks I have been featured on the CTC media site as a news alert that has been sent out worldwide. Here is the link to the CTC article: http://mediacentre.canada.travel/content/ctc_news/tourism-bizwiz-aboriginal-tourism-canada

The TTRA (Travel Tourism Research Association) published their Newsletter and I have a story on our program, one of my professor, my mentor and my research interest. Here is the link for the story. http://www.ttracanada.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/2010%20Spring%20aTTRAction.pdf

I would like to thank the Garfield Weston Awards, all of my professors for your help and encouragement.

Culture experience

Youth Dancers At Pow Wow in Fort Erie.

Cultural experiences will be a big part of my summer project.

Summer Experience Day 1 May 03/10

May 3/10

Paper work and reading this am.

Then off to Niagara College to book Audio recorder.

Also meant with two professors for suggestions about my summer work program.

Phone calls to B.C. this afternoon, trying to finalize dates for trip out west for interviews.

Local interviews almost all setup.

My head spinning already and it isn't even my first official day, so excited to start the research.

The information share by my mentor and the work that we have already done has allowed me to start off with a productive day.