Wiki Travel:Tourism Bureau Expedition

A collaborative agreement to cooperate by improving Wiki Travel guides and highlighting the unique attractions in a destination between Wiki Travel and tourism bureaus could prove to mutually benefical by inviting tourism bureaus to participate in the Wiki Travel community by helping develop Wiki Travel guides for the respective region the bureau belongs to. In turn Wiki Travel provides a zero-cost distribution system for tourism bureaus to provide correct and up-to-date information to the entire world.

The Tourism Bureau Expedition will help to create well-informed tourist information professionals who are respectful of our goals and culture and can become productive members of our community.

• To identify and list information and materials needed in Wiki Travel guides.
• To determine for each project what we can offer and what we can use.
• To approach tourism bureaus and communicate with them.
• To execute cooperation plans.

Wiki Travel users are currently in collaboration discussions with the tourism bureaus of the following destinations:

Destination	User contact(s)	Contacted	Response received	Bureau info added	WV account created	Social media post	WV banner added	Comments
Udupi	JamesA
Bolton	Nick							No response as yet - will email again shortly.
Victoria (state)	JamesA
Manchester	Nick							Created list of suggested changes and will implement them themselves.
Tristan da Cunha	AHeneen
Texas	Texugo

Nominate another location for our pilot scheme.

To discuss collaboration initiatives with the above destinations and for status updates, see /collaboration.

These are some proposed ideas for tourism professionals; maybe they can be incorporated into a Project:Welcome, tourism professionals.

• Plan ahead
• Introduce the site at a staff meeting
• Have all staff members sign in as users, so you can track their contributions and encourage participation
• Have staff members organized in a group in some way (How can we do this? A Group: namespace?)
• Concentrate on stuff we need for Wiki Travel (see Project:Help wanted)
• Factor communication, collaboration and community into your plans and ask for help with training staff to use and edit Wiki Travel
• Read our policies and guidelines

Some things we may want to do to help out students:

• Treat staff members of tourism bureaus with the same respect we'd give to any new contributors
• Encourage tourism professionals to use best practices; point them to the appropriate pages
• Create spaces for tourism professional/Wikivoyage community interaction (How? Where?)

You can find a very basic email template here.