KEDCO Update: Week Ending July 20, 2013

Published on: 2013/07/20 - in Releases

HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES

Business Development

Christa Wallbridge, Business Development Officer and David Snow, Kingston Airport Manager were in Buttonville and Peterborough on July 16-17. Wallbridge and Snow met with the owner of Toronto Airways and the Buttonville Airport to discuss plans for when the Buttonville Airport closes in 2015 and highlighted Kingston Airport facilities and available services to airport tenants. Wallbridge and Snow also met with staff at the Peterborough Airport for a tour of their new expansion.

Rebecca Darling, Business Advisor and Mary Ann Walmsley, Program Coordinator with the Entrepreneur Centre will present to the Queen’s University Career Centre on July 23 as part of the Queen’s Brown Bag Lunch Series. Darling and Walmsley will present to 20-25 Queen’s summer student employees on programs administered by the Entrepreneur Centre at KEDCO including Summer Company, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), Business Basics and other information on starting a business.

Tourism

Connie Markle, Manager of Conferences and Travel Trade will be in Ottawa on July 24-25
to conduct sales calls with qualified corporate meeting planners. Markle will meet with a variety of associations to introduce Kingston as a destination for meetings and conferences and special events.

Tourism Kingston is proud to sponsor the Canadian Open of Fishing which will take place July 26-28 in Confederation Basin. This annual fundraiser for the Kingston Military Family Resource Centre pairs pro-anglers with amateurs over three days of competition. The event will be televised on the World Fishing Network and has an expected economic impact of $500,000.

KEDCO Board and Staff would like to welcome Brandon Pickard to the position of Sports Tourism Development Officer with Tourism Kingston. Pickard is a graduate of Brock University’s Sport Management Program and has been working with Hockey Night in Canada’s Play On! where he has successful executed 60 events, including 21 tournaments at the national level in 2013. Pickard will be relocating to Kingston from London, Ontario.

KEDCO would also like to bid farewell to Jacqueline Bell, our departing Sports Tourism Development Officer. Jacqueline has been an asset to the Tourism Kingston team for five years. We wish Jacqueline the best in her future endeavours.

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Release source: Kingston Economic Development Corporation