Stakeholder Newsletter April 11, 2022

What Stakeholders Need to Know

for the week of April 11, 2022 - April 17, 2022

Sarah Laturnus

Tourism Manager

I hope you enjoyed last week's newsletter! I have been a busy bee trying to set up, and respond to, meeting requests with local stakeholders before peak season arrives. We are also advertising for the mobile ambassador and team lead positions in partnership with the EEC.

Thank you to those who have already submitted your event information to us for our events calendar! We are happy to share this info for you. Make sure you input your event info as soon as they are ready so they are featured!

Submit Event Info

New to the Stakeholder Portal is our resources page! Here you will find photo and video assets that you are welcome to download from our library to use for your own marketing purposes.

Resources

Up Coming Brockville Events

Shop the Street is back in Downtown Brockville! Saturday April 16th, 9:00am-5:00pm.
This will be a soft launch of the monthly Shop the Street events. Note there will be no street closure just an excellent opportunity to bring your boots & brolly to King Street and enjoy what we have to offer!

Visit the Tourism Events Calendar

Save the Dates

The Brockville Tall Ships® Festival Committee is proud to announce that Brockville will host the city’s 4th Tall Ships Festival from June 24-26, 2022. The festival will be held on Blockhouse Island and Hardy Park and will be Ontario’s biggest Tall Ships Festival this year!

River Jams is a charity event in located at Hardy Park July 9th 9am to 4pm consisting of a live concerts, fishing derby, volleyball tournament, kids zone, BBQ, vendor show, silent auction plus additional entertainment like magicians, dancers, parkour and more. What more could you want?... no really, what would you want to see there? They are taking suggestions to make this year even better!

Oh and, the best part, IT'S FREE TO ATTEND!!!

Brockville Ribfest returns August 4th - 6th at Hardy Park with all your favourite Ribbers, Bloomin' Onions, Funnel Cake, Vendors, Music, Beer tent and more! All to support Big Brothers Big Sisters Brockville.

Industry News

Thousand Island International Tourism Council is calling for events to share on their website!

To add your events, send event name, time and dates with website link information to info@visit1000islands.com and include EVENT written in the email subject line.

They are also looking for your spring promos! Send them any info on Victoria/Memorial Day, Pride and Fishing season that you'd like for them to feature.

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