BUSINESS VISITATION STUDIES
Community Business Visitations - Fall 2020
Community Futures West Yellowhead (CFWY) visited businesses throughout the West Yellowhead region in September and October 2020. CFWY staff, its Board of Directors, and partners within its member municipalilties held business visitation walks to discuss the economic challenges and impacts during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Tourism Industry Business Retention and Expansion (TIBRE) Project
A community-focused economic development project to enhance tourism offerings and grow tourism businesses is beginning in Hinton. Local tourism related businesses are encouraged to participate in this important project.
The Tourism Industry Business Retention and Expansion Project (TIBRE) is designed to identify business retention issues and expansion opportunities for existing tourism businesses in targeted municipalities. The project involves the identification of existing and eligible tourism businesses and visiting them to assess their health and intentions. The project helps existing tourism businesses optimize their operations by identifying challenges and implementing solutions to help them grow.
Business participation in this community economic development project is essential to its success. It will also strengthen collaboration between tourism-focused organizations and the local business community to further develop tourism in the community.
The first stage of the project is to visit with Hinton tourism related business owners, which will be starting shortly and will be completed by December 21st. In the next few days, tourism businesses will receive a letter detailing how they can participate. Individual information and comments will be confidential, but aggregated information will be shared in a report to the community. Combined with other tourism research, the report will be a valuable resource to help solve local problems, plan for future tourism businesses, and promote the community.
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TIBRE Survey - Research Findings
Triage BR+E Strategic Action Plan
Municipal District of Greenview, Grande Cache, Alberta
Community leaders in the Municipal District of Greenview and Grande Cache have been taking strides to accelerate local economic development. Business retention and expansion (BR+E) activities can be employed to ensure business needs are monitored and addressed; however, engagement can be time-consuming and complex.
A BR+E survey was commissioned to engage businesses and report on observations generalizable to the broader business community, while also allowing for the identification of potential expansion or retention intervention opportunities, which staff can follow-up business-by-business.
Action Plan - BR+E Grande Cache, Alberta
Business Visitation Study
Community Futures West Yellowhead serves the communities of Edson, Hinton, Jasper, Grande Cache and Yellowhead County and has completed Business Visitation Studies in 4 out of the 5 communities.
Yellowhead County
In the summer and fall of 2015, CFWY interviewed 147 businesses within Yellowhead County. To view this study, please click on the link below.
2015 Yellowhead County Business Visitation Study
Hinton
From July to September of 2015, CFWY interviewed 258 businesses in the community of Hinton, completing the third Business Visitation Study for the region. To view this study, please click on the link below:
2015 Hinton Business Visitation Study
2016 Hinton One Year After Summary
2017 Hinton Business Visitation Two Year Follow Up
Jasper
In the summer of 2014, CFWY completed a Business Visitation Study, speaking to 138 local Jasper businesses to determine the needs and opportunities for business growth in the community. To view this study, please click on the link below:
2014 Jasper Business Visitation Study
2015 Jasper One Year After Summary
2016 Jasper Business Visitation Two Year Follow Up
Grande Cache
In the summer / fall of 2014, CFWY completed a Business Visitation Study within the community of Grande Cache. This study spoke to 148 businesses located within the municipality. To view this study, please click on the link below:
2014 Grande Cache Business Visitation Study
2015 Grande Cache One Year After Summary
2016 Grande Cache Business Visitation Two Year Follow Up
Edson
Comprising our largest business visitation study to date, CFWY interviewed 300 within the community of Edson in the summer and fall of 2016. To view this study, please click on the link below:
2017 Edson Business Visitation Study
For more information on the Business Visitation Studies or to request Community Economic Development assistance within your community, please contact us.
