Success Stories
Building Tourism Clusters in the Canadian Badlands
The Canadian Badlands Ltd is a partnership of 52 rural municipalities working together to make the Badlands region in Southern Alberta a highly recognizable tourism destination. This would diversify a region that has historically been economically challenged and reliant on oil, natural gas, and agriculture.
Activities for the project include: developing an inventory of tourism experiences; identifying “clusters” of tourism experiences; providing workshops and one-on-one facilitation on topics related to tourism marketing; pitching media tours for promotion and awareness of the region; and marketing the new tourism “clusters”.
Partners include: Community Futures Big Country, Community Futures Wild Rose, Community Futures Chinook, Chinook Country Tourist Association, Medicine Hat Tourism, SouthGrow Regional Initiative, Palliser Economic Partnership, EnCana, Alberta Municipal Affairs and Housing, Drumheller and District Chamber of Commerce, and Canadian Badlands Ltd.
- South East Alberta Technology Strategy
- Canmore – A Community of Healthy Living and Wellbeing
- Development of the Alberta Energy Corridor
- Grow North Implementation Project
- Diversification of the Red Deer Region - Investment Attraction
- Wide Open Roads of the North
- Adding Value to the Agri-Food Value Chain
- Destination Marketing Fund Cluster Development
- Crowsnest Mountain Freedom – Mountain Bike Tourism Cluster
- Leduc-Nisku Local Food Market Business Expansion Initiative
- Producer Select Lamb Value Chain
- Canadian Badlands Tourism Investment Development and Attraction Initiative – Developing Clusters for Tourism Investment
- Farm Masters
- Brooks Metal Manufacturing Cluster
- Chinook Country Regional Cluster Development & Tourism Strategy
- Central Alberta Rural Manufacturing Cluster Development Project
- Developing a Web-Based Rural Business Cluster
- Too Hot for the Kitchen – Local Food Commercialization
- Heavy Equipment Operator Training Centre: Rural Industrial Productivity Enhancement in North East Alberta
- Lloydminster and Region Virtual Incubator
