Upcoming Missions
The mission will visit several successful food/wine establishments with experienced chefs/managers and exemplary technical skills and setup. Food interpretation, cooking school experiences, and/or culinary tourism experiences will be featured on this particular mission. The establishments will provide an authentic tourism experience whereby one learns about, appreciates, and consumes food/drink that reflects the local, regional, or national cuisine, heritage, culture, tradition, or culinary techniques.
Participants will visit port destinations that have been successful in engaging the local community with the industry to offer revenue generating, market-ready experiences/opportunities for the ports. The focus will be on learning how local operators maximize the economic potential of the growing cruise sector by using effective shore excursion marketing/programming to reach the incoming traffic from cruise ships. The visited destinations will be continually developing and improving products.
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Past Mission Profile
Cycle Touring Best Practices Mission 2007 - Lessons Learned
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The group indicated that they had learned a great deal from the experience and are going to implement their findings to their respective regions. |





