New job for Mike Clewer

Mike Clewer, the ex MD of Humber Valley Resort has a new job, and is now Executive Director of the Western DMO (DMO Destination Marketing Organistion).

The Western DMO (WDMO) is a non-profit Destination Marketing Organization focused on marketing Western Newfoundland & Southern Labrador as a first-class multi-season tourism destination. Their mission is to increase economic development through tourism in Western Newfoundland Labrador.

Their website says "in 2008-09, the WDMO will focus primarily on three sectors: Touring & Exploring (Leisure), Winter Tourism, and Meetings, Conventions & Incentive Travel. There will be secondary focus on Adventure Tourism and Hunting & Fishing".

Well we wish them every success, as Newfoundland needs to serious wake up to the economic opportunities that tourism could bring.

The WDMO website is at www.westernnl.org and other NFLD tourism sites can be fouond at www.crazyaboutnewfoundland.ca/links/

More changes at HVR

More changes at Humber Valley Resort this week ...

The River Course is without doubt an award winning beautiful course.

From HVR-KDG

To make the golf course a more accessible benefit of staying at the resort (or being an owner), the course is now only playable by guests, owners and annual season ticket holders.

As the latest casualty of the changes being made by the new CEO Jayne McGiven, late this week Mike Clewer (MD of the resort) lost his job. The new corporate strategy includes a major change in direction, and a new CEO was always likely to bring in their own key people. We will have to wait to see which is the reason for this particular change.