Agri Tourism

Question 1

aditional – B&B’s
–
– Garden Centres
– Nurseries
– Petting Zoos
– Halloween Events
– Maple sugar
– Road Side Farm Stands – Farmer’s Markets

Answer 1

Wineries
– U-pick Strawberry
– Corn Maze

Question 2

New Forms of Tourism •Farm Festivals
•Farm Entertainment •Farm Dinners
•Farm Tours •Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

Answer 2

Farm Festivals

•Farm Entertainment •Farm Dinners

Question 3

In Alberta

– Contributes close to $? To the Provincial Economy Annually

Answer 3

2 Billion

Question 4

Eagle Creek

Answer 4

Farm history

Question 5

Eagle creek

Answer 5

U-pick flowers
U-pick vegetables
Mazes

Question 6

Benefits of Agri Tourism
Job Retention
– Job Creation

– Rural Culture & Heritage Preservation – Increase Sales of Arts & Crafts
– Landscape Conservation
– Environmental Improvements
– Historic Environment

Answer 6

– New Business Opportunity
– Youth Opportunities
– Service Retention
– Community Diversification
– Community Pride

Question 7

Back to Business (Ag Business)
• Labour Market
The single largest factor in Agri Tourism
– Wages account for?% -?% of expenses
• $2 increase in wage = 18%-25% increase in labour cost
• 2004 – 2014 all the labour in Alberta was tied up by the??.
– Employees Market
• 2014 – present
– Significant Shift more of an ? Market

Answer 7

30 70

Energy Sector

Employers

Question 8

Residual Effects
• Stuck with higher ?
• Employees are lazy…

Answer 8

wages

Question 9

How Have Tourism Operations Adjusted
– Positive
– Negative

Answer 9

Migrant Labour

Held back Expansion

Question 10

Cost of Energy
• Bowden SunMaze
– Virtually non existent at the moment – May limit expansion
• Any Tourism operation which depends on a greenhouse
–? High Energy = No Product = No Tourism

Answer 10

HUGE!!

Question 11

Catch 22
• If there was no Energy Activity in Alberta,
• Alberta would not have the population to support

Answer 11

Agri Tourism

Question 12

Liability & Permits
• Every Business needs a? permit
• Except ? agricultural
• Approval of neighbors
•?? from leases, sour gas wells, oil infrastructure
 • County Permits
•? Insurance

Answer 12

development
traditional
Set backs
Liability

Question 13

Liability & Permits Development & Expansion
• Most relevant for Land Agent industry
– Must? the situation of the operation
• History with oil company -? for the most part
• Current & Future use of land – Expansion of tourism
• Desire for wells to be drilled - ?
– Ag Tourism is a different ball game from traditional agriculture
Any one know Why??

Answer 13

understand
Decent
None

Makes money

Question 14

$$$ $
• Barley$300/acre • Wheat $350/acre • Canola$600/acre
• These #’s will vary based on changes in commodity prices…but

Answer 14

U-pick$10,000$20,000/acre

• Festivals/Maze/Entertainment$15,000-$40,000/acre

Question 15

Customer Perception of the Energy Sector In relation to Agri Tourism
• Completely different from reality
– Expectations are 
• Clean
•? roads
•? pathways
 • Vast open spaces

Answer 15

Paved

Concrete

Question 16

What reflects poorly on a visitor experience
•? ? - BAD
• FLARES - BAD
•??? “gets dust on my Hummer”
• LARGE POWER LINES – BAD
• Although they are not a part of an operation they are a part of the Experience
• “Selling the ?”

Answer 16

OILS WELLS
LARGE OILFIELD EQUIPMENT
Experience