WHAT'S YOUR NEW TOURISM IDEA?
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Join us as we inspire and support tourism

​entrepreneurs and innovation across Canada! 


Our progress since 2018:

• 100+ program partners across Canada
• 40+ “Spark” Programs delivered

• 5 Indigenous tourism programs launched
• 450+ “Spark” applications received
• 40+ pitch sessions held (in person and virtual)
• 150+ review jurors and pitch session judge panel volunteers

• 100+ “Spark” winners in BC & Ontario received mentorships & grants
• 100+ volunteer mentors recruited and matched
• 4 Digital Shift Virtual Workshops
• 2 Tourism Innovators Roundtables


Watch these videos to see why we do what we do!
Be inspired! Curveball Creative developed and launched a new projection art experience called "Love Text" in London.
Be inspired! Fields of Gold is a new agritourism destination in SDG Counties.
Be inspired! Simper's Fishing Charters is developing new Indigenous tourism experiences in Caldwell First Nation,
Be Inspired! iSUP Saugeen launched a mobile surf shop, water safety awareness programs and on-water experiences.
Be inspired! The Downtown Wallaceburg BIA is developing a new kayak experience called Whimsies Paddle Adventures.

​About the Tourism Innovation Lab:
The Tourism Innovation Lab is a non-profit initiative created to find, foster and support new tourism ideas, experiences and partnerships, to cultivate and propel collaborations between the tourism and tech sectors, and to build a community of tourism innovators, idea makers and entrepreneurs in Canada. First launched in 2018, the Lab and its "Spark" Mentorships & Grants Program are now offered across British Columbia and Ontario.

​The Tourism Innovation Lab is a program of Hackforge and is based in Windsor, ON and Squamish, BC.

Interested in launching the "Spark" Program in your region? 
​Interested in being a mentor and supporting innovators and new tourism initiatives?  

Please contact Justin Lafontaine, Program Lead at info@tourisminnovation.ca or 416-712-8819 for more information.

​Updates from the Lab:
Read our September 2023 Newsletter

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Terms & Conditions

The Tourism Innovation Lab is a Program of Hackforge

Copyright © 2023 Hackforge

Central Canada Home Base 
Tourism Innovation Lab
c/o Hackforge
300 Ouellette Ave, Suite 210, Windsor, ON N9A 7B4
​​​info@tourisminnovation.ca
1-844-455-0325 x 1 (toll-free)

​Western Canada Home Base
Tourism Innovation Lab
c/o The Common
38016 Cleveland Ave, Squamish, BC V8B 0A1
info@tourisminnovation.ca
1-844-455-0325 x 2 (toll-free)

We respectfully acknowledge that our home base in Windsor-Essex sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, which is comprised of the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Peoples. We also respectfully acknowledge that our home base in Squamish sits on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples: Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam First Nations. We will honour this by collaborating with Indigenous-led organizations and businesses to support the advancement of Indigenous tourism in those regions and across Canada.​
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