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October 16, 1996
(Tourism, Culture and Recreation)


The following is being distributed at the request of The John Cabot (1997) 500th Anniversary Corporation:

October 19 will see the beginning of a series of 51 workshops on three topics in more than 20 communities around Newfoundland and Labrador which will run until November 20. The Cabot 500 Celebrations Team will deliver these workshops to the volunteers who are developing and organizing special events in their communities for the 1997 Cabot 500 Celebrations. The workshops include SuperHost, Planning Special Events...The Basics, and Food Safety and Service.

"Volunteers who participate in any one of these workshops will have the advantage of four to eight hours of leadership training from an experienced facilitator or instructor. If they are familiar with these topics already, the workshops will help to upgrade or refresh their skills," says Sandra Kelly, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation. "1997 is the year to build on our tourism product. The large scale publicity the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's arrival is receiving across North America and in Europe, and the potential for more than 60,000 additional visitors to our province in 1997, provides an opportunity to generate tremendous positive `word-of-mouth' publicity around the world."

SuperHost is an eight hour seminar which helps the volunteer or front-line person understand the expectation of international tourists and things we can do to better ensure they have a great vacation. The program was developed by British Columbia to help their volunteers prepare for Expo' 86. Some 250,000 British Colombians took part in SuperHost and it was so successful that the seminars are recognized world-wide.

The key to having your event run smoothly is in the planning and behind the scenes organization. Planning Special Events...The Basics is an eight hour workshop which covers all aspects of event planning from developing goals and objectives to back-up plans, action planning, budgeting, sponsorship, fundraising, marketing and scripting the event. This is an opportunity for those who have been planning their community events for years to prepare that same event for an international audience.

Statistics show about 5,000 cases of food poisoning are reported in Canada and it is suspected that for every case reported, there may be 10 to 100 unreported. The four hour Food Safety and Service workshop will inform volunteers on the safe preparation of food for large groups of people. The workshop is intended for the person who does not have formal food service training in buying or preparing food in quantity.

Contact: Marilyn Buckingham, Training Coordinator, Cabot 500 Celebrations, (709) 729-4543, (709) 579-1997, fax: (709) 579-2067.

1996 10 16   11:05 a.m.

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