Garden Tourism Conference Agenda

November 3 to 5, 2019 – Victoria, BC

Sunday, November 3, 2019
9:00 – 10:00	Registration	Hotel Grand Pacific Lobby
10:00 – 4:00 pm	Bus departs Hotel Grand Pacific for Tour of The Butchart Gardens and Butterfly Gardens	Box lunch courtesy of The Butchart Gardens
3:00 – 5:00 pm	Registration	Hotel Grand Pacific Lobby
5:30 – 7:30 pm	Opening Night Reception sponsored by Destination Greater Victoria	Location to be Announced
Monday, November 4, 2019
7:30 – 8:30 am	Breakfast
8:30 AM	Welcome, Introductions & Conference Overview – Intro of Moderators	Michel Gauthier – Executive Director, Canadian Garden Council
		Richard Doran – Marketing and Communications Manager, APGA
		Paul Nursey – CEO, Destination Greater Victoria
		Geoff Ball – Chair, Gardens BC
9:00 AM	Keynotes Garden – How Chanticleer Partners with the Philadelphia Region for Tourism Success	Bill Thomas – Executive Director, Chanticleer Foundation – USA
9:30 AM	Tourism Presentation	Paul Nursey, CEO, Destination Greater Victoria – Canada
10:00 AM	British Columbia`s Gardens Tourism Strategy	Dave Cowen, CEO, The Butchart Gardens – Canada
10:30 – 1:00 am	Network Break	Marketplace
11:00 AM	Making A Botanic Garden Business Case for Growth	Harry Jongerden – Director, Toronto Botanical Garden – Canada
11:30 AM	Making a Difference with Floral Attractions in the Netherlands and China”	Ibo Gulsen – Director IGMPR, Flowers, Parks & More – Netherlands
12:00 – 1:30pm	Luncheon – Flower Count or Celebrating Victoria “the City of Gardens” ???
1:30 PM	“Beyond the Garden: the Chelsea Fringe Festival a Model for Activating Cities and Regions “	Tim Richardson – Founder-Director , Chelsea Fringe – UK
2:00 PM	“Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden’s Recipe to Garden Tourism Success”	Michelle Day – Executive Director , Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden – Canada
2:30 PM	What Makes a Blooming Destination a Success	Cindy Verge – Executive Director, Skagit Valley Tulip Festival – USA
3:00 – 3:30 pm	Network Break	Marketplace
3:30 PM	“Your Garden – A Chef’s Playground”	Brad Henderson – Director of Operations , Kingsbrae Garden – Canada
4:00 PM	Creating a Successful Garden Tour	Lois Moss – Gardens Tours – USA
4:30 PM	Garden Bathing	Brian White – Program Head for the Master of Arts in Tourism Management at Royal Roads University – Canada
5:00 – 5:30 pm	Moderators Wrap-up Panel
6:30 PM	Dine around Victoria organised by Destination Victoria	Moderators Wrap Panel
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
7:30 – 8:30	Networking Breakfast sponsored by APGA
8:30 AM	Intro of Moderators	Michel Gauthier – Executive Director, Canadian Garden Council
8:45 AM	The Difference a Festival Can Make	Alexander Reford – Director, International Garden Festival and Reford Gardens – Canada
9:15 AM	‘Discover How Scottish Gardens attract garden visitors to Scotland’	Catherine Erskine – Trustee,  Scotland`s Garden Route/ Cambo Gardens – Scotland
9:45 AM	Marketing an Expanded Visitor Experience	Mary Pat – President CEO, Atlanta Botanical Garden – USA
10:15 – 10:45	Network Break	Marketplace
10:45 – 11:15	“How a Flower Changed Portland Oregon”	Jeff Curtis
		Chief Executive Officer
		Portland Rose Festival Foundation – USA
11:15 – 12:00	“The Garden that Love Built”	Cathy Armstrong – Executive Director, The Land Conservancy/Abkhazi Garden – Canada
12:00 – 2:00pm	Garden Tourism Awards Luncheon	sponsored by CNLA
2:00 PM	What a Difference a Garden Can Make	Nora Whitcher – Director, Visitor Services, University of Alberta Botanic Garden – Canada
2:30 PM	Garden Tourism in South Korea: From the First National Garden to Seoul’s Skygarden	Prof Jeong – Dean of Graduate School of Tourism and Festival Management, Paichai University – South Korea
3:00 – 3:30 pm	Network Break	Marketplace
3:30 PM	From a Tulip Bulb farm to a Garden Tourism Attraction	Kate Onos-Gilbert – Owner/Operator -Tulips of the Valley – Canada
4:00 PM	Gerald Dieleman	Project Director of Canada’s Diversity Gardens at the Assiniboine Park Conservancy, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
4:30 PM	Leadership in Garden Tourism	Heike Platter
		– International Relations
		– Trauttmansdorff Garden – Italy
5:00pm	Moderators Wrap-up Panel
5:30 – 7pm	Aurevoir Reception