At their meeting yesterday the Flin Flon and District Chamber of Commerce heard from Alan McLauchlan the Northern Manitoba Tourism Consultant for Tourism Manitoba.  He explained his role is to help roll out the Northern Tourism Strategy to assist communities and entrepreneurs increase tourism spending in the north and to get people excited about tourism and get all of us, right from the person that pumps your gas right up to the Mayor and Council to get out mind set changed that tourism is really an important part of our communities and if you don’t think that tourism affects you, really it affects all of us so its important that we do get that mind set changed.

McLauchlan adds we need to answer the question why should people come to Flin Flon so we should be looking for things you can only do in Flin Flon and get the word out there so people will come here for that experience.  He adds to help with this Travel Manitoba will soon be initiating a place brand program which will give the community the chance to develop a brand focusing on what the community has to offer and use it in promotions as we see fit.