Niagara Region Trail Tourism Success Stories
Unique destinations and signature experiences, hear how Niagara is promoting their trails, trail activities and the range of special attributes that makes regional trails tourism the emerging tourism trend.
Speakers: Arlene White, Director, Binational Tourism Alliance
William Merritt, Director, 1812 International Initiatives
TBA, Director, Niagara Bike-Services Initiative
Moderator:
TBD, Director of Tourism, Niagara Region
Open Source Mapping
The internet has opened up a whole new medium for the representation to trial information, hear about this Open Source Mapping project and how it is contributing to the public knowledge base of trails, how you can participate and what data they require
Speaker:
Richard Weait, National Project Leader On-line Mapping
Mapping/GIS
Maps are the key tool that tell people where the trails are, they help avoid time loss, detail topography which determine the difficulty of trails and they guide us in and out of the wilderness. The panel discusses new aspects of mapping and the GIS GPS interface.
Speakers:
Damian Bradley, Decarto Consulting
Carol-Anne Albertson, GITA/MNR (LIO)
Richard Weait, National Project Leader On-line Mapping
Moderator:
Rick Gray, Professor of Information Management and Geospatial Services, University of Guelph at Ridgetown
