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Making the Blackstone Valley Experience Work for Your Community or Region

Since 2005, the award winning Sustainable Tourism Lab has been at the forefront of assisting communities, regions, and organizations throughout the world with strengthening tourism and economic development programs through the use of sustainable tourism principles. The Lab offers a number of educational and consulting programs modeled after its success in turning Rhode Island's Blackstone Valley into a major tourist
destination for the state.  More

 

Lab Services

Educational and consulting programs include:

  1. Day long or multi-day conferences, workshops, or other educational programs, including planning collabs
  2. Strategic planning and tourism development advising and consulting
  3. General consulting, and
  4. Speaker's bureau.  More

Lab Clients

  • Community planners
  • City, town, state and other government leaders
  • Tourism councils, convention and visitor bureaus,  chambers of commerce staffs and boards of directors
  • Destination managers
  • Planning board members
  • Community opinion shapers interested in developing tourism
  • Tourism entrepreneurs

News and Announcements

On July 6th, at 7pm at the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center Theater, 175 Main St, Pawtucket, Bob Billington and Louis Yip will be sharing stories and images of their May 2010 trip to the World Tourism Summit, Mainland China and Hong Kong. Join us and bring a friend or two. No RSVP is needed.

Arista Awards: Sustainable Tourism Lab offers cash prize for sustainable tourism efforts - Info
Nominate or apply

2010 Beijing Summit Review - Global Travel and Tourism Summit More | View conference materials and reports

 

Sustainable Tourism Laboratory  175 Main Street  Pawtucket RI 02860 USA 1-800-454-2882  info@tourblackstone.com