EVALUATING & ADAPTING
STRONGER TOURISM FOUNDATION
Goal: Ensure collaboration, community support, people and financing for tourism recovery and success.
Indicators:
• Percentage of residents who feel the benefits of tourism outweigh the challenges( Maintain or Increase)
• Percentage of businesses who feel the benefits of tourism outweigh the challenges( increase)
• Ratio of the median residential dwellings( all types – detached, townhouse, apartment) assessment value to the median employment income( decrease, stabilize)
• Total tourism funding( RMI, MRDT, Co-op, other) from the province and DBC( increase)
• Percent of tourism businesses with adequate staffing during peak and non-peak seasons( Increase)
• Self-assessed partnership strength between the main tourism organizations( Grow)
• Efforts undertaken to build awareness and relationships
• Percentage of all TMP actions in progress, completed
SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT
Goal: Manage locations where visitation is impacting the sense of community or natural environment and support the resiliency of
the industry.
Indicators:
• Ratio of dollars for maintenance to tourism infrastructure to dollars for new infrastructure( Increase)
• Percentage of residents who feel the benefits of tourism outweigh the challenges( Increase)
• Percentage of businesses who feel the benefits of tourism outweigh the challenges( maintain or increase)
• Total MRDT by season( Balance)
• Distribution of trail users on existing networks( Increase, Trail Forks or trail counters for hiking)
• Ha of cleared forest within view of downtown( maintain, decrease)
• Collaborative funds raised for TMP actions and related conservation efforts
• Advocacy efforts undertaken
• Efforts undertaken to build awareness and relationships
• Health of ecosystems – 1) Health and Population of Westslope Cutthroat Trout, 2) Bear Mortality, 3) Elk Population