On November 18, YCB hosted its 17th Annual Red Carpet Tour featuring services and products our YCB Members provide to Events, Conferences, and Meetings across the Yukon. 

This year’s Red Carpet Tour saw a total of 5 participants from various government departments and the private sector. 

Thanks to the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre for kicking off the event and for the Best Western Gold Rush Inn for catering the breakfast (all individually wrapped). 

Our ground transportation sponsor, Standard Bus, drove the group around all day to properties for site visits which included Mt Mac Curling Club, Skky Hotel & Tony’s Pasta & Seafood Restaurant, Well Bread Culinary Centre, Edgewater Hotel, and the newly opened Raven Inn.

After an educational tour at the MacBride Museum, we sat down to a delicious lunch catered by The Claim Cafe, while Carmen Magro from Klondike Travel and Jeff Hamm from Upstream Events passed along information about the details of hybrid/virtual events as well as some changes and reminders for safe and efficient travel.

In the afternoon, we visited the Yukon Wildlife Preserve, Smoke and Sow’s new brick and mortar restaurant, and Polarity Brewing. We learned about the various pre and post meeting activities there are to do in and around Whitehorse, new culinary experiences and some new venue options.

We wrapped up the day with bites catered by Wandering Bison and beverages at the soon-to-be-opened Gather Cafe after a ‘hot’ experience with Lumel Studio and YCB drew names for door prizes.

Thank you to all of our members, partners and sponsors for helping make this day possible – we couldn’t do it without you!

A big thank you to our sponsors and partners:

Standard Bus – Hubert our AWESOME driver!

Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre

Skky Hotel & Tony’s Pasta & Seafood Restaurant

Mt. Mac Curling Club

Raven Inn

Well Bread Culinary Centre

Edgewater Hotel & Downtown Hotel (Dawson City)

MacBride Museum 

The Chocolate Claim Food & Café

Upstream Events

Klondike Travel

Yukon Wildlife Preserve

Smoke & Sow BBQ

Polarity Brewing

Gather Café & Lumel Glass Studio

Beringia Interpretative Centre

Free Pour Jenny’s Bitters

Bean North Coffee Roasters

Caribou Crossing Trading Post

Klondike Kettle Corn

September 18, 2020 – Teaming up with YTG Tourism, YCB hosted four guests from Vancouver, BC for a busy and exciting 1-day Leisure/MICE Business tour of Whitehorse and surrounding areas. This FAM tour helped familiarize key decision makers who are better equip to sell the Yukon as a destination to their groups and conferences. Our guests experienced beautiful Yukon Fall colours and clear sunny skies during their short visit. A huge THANK YOU to the following YCB members and partners who helped make the tour a success:

Air North – Yukon’s Airline, Driving Force

CKRW – The Rush

Best Western Gold Rush Inn

Sternwheeler Hotel & Conference Centre, Coast High Country Inn & Edgewater Hotel, and Raven Inn. 

Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, MacBride Museum and the Beringia Interpretative Centre

Gold Pan Saloon and Railwork Lounge

Your continued support and participation with YCB is integral to our success!

September 13-17, YCB hosted three guests from Vancouver, BC for a busy and exciting 3-day FAM tour of Whitehorse and surrounding areas. This FAM tour helped familiarize key decision makers who are better equip to sell the Yukon as a destination to their groups and conferences. Our guests experienced beautiful Yukon Fall colours and clear sunny skies during their short visit. A huge THANK YOU to the following YCB members and partners who helped make the Winter FAM tour a success:

Air North – Yukon’s Airline, Driving Force

CKRW – The Rush

Best Western Gold Rush Inn

Sternwheeler Hotel & Conference Centre

Coast High Country Inn & Edgewater Hotel, Klondike Travel, Raven Inn, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Days Inn, MacBride Museum, Carcross Tagish First Nation Learning Centre, Caribou Crossing Trading Post and the Beringia Interpretative Centre

Yukon Wildlife Preserve, Lumel Studios & Yukon Brewing

Well Bread Culinary Centre, Antoinette’s, Wayfarer Oyster House, The Gold Pan Saloon, Woodcutter’s Blanket, Burnt Toast

Your continued support and participation with YCB is integral to our success!

March 10-13, YCB hosted four guests from Toronto(2), Ottawa and London, Ontario for a busy and exciting 3-day FAM tour of Whitehorse and surrounding areas. This FAM tour helped familiarize key decision makers who are better equip to sell the Yukon as a destination to their groups and conferences. Our guests experienced snow, -30 temperates and beautiful clear sunny skies during their short visit. A huge THANK YOU to the following YCB members and partners who helped make the Winter FAM tour a success:

Air North – Yukon’s Airline, Driving Force

CKRW – The Rush

Westmark Whitehorse Hotel

Coast High Country Inn, Klondike Travel, Best Western Gold Rush Inn, Edgewater Hotel, Raven Inn, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Days Inn, Arts Underground, North light/Yukonstruct Innovation Hub, Yukon Transportation Museum, MacBride Museum and the Beringia Interpretative Centre

Yukon Wildlife Preserve, Lumel Studios & Yukon Brewing

Well Bread Culinary Centre, Antoinette’s, Wayfarer Oyster House, The Gold Pan Saloon, Steele St. Restaurant, Toni’s Pasta and Seafood Restaurant and the Chocolate Claim.

Your continued support and participation with YCB is integral to our success!

On November 14, YCB hosted its 16th Annual Red Carpet Tour featuring services and products our YCB Members provide to Events, Conferences, and Meetings across the Yukon.

This year’s Red Carpet Tour saw a total of 9 participants from various government departments and the private sector. 

Thanks to the Beringia Interpretative Centre for kicking off the event and for the Westmark Whitehorse for catering the breakfast. 

Our ground transportation sponsor, Standard Bus, drove the group around all day to properties for site visits which included Mt Mac Curling Club, Yukon Transportation Museum, Skky Hotel & Tony’s Pasta & Seafood Restaurant, Coast High Country Inn, Edgewater Hotel, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, the newly opened North Light Innovation Hub to tour (co) space & Yukonstruct’s new spaces and the Westmark Whitehorse Hotel.

After a tour of the new expansion at the MacBride Museum, we sat down to a delicious lunch catered by The Claim Cafe, while Heather from Air North and Kurt from Raven Inn passed along information about future bookings and news of what to look forward to with both Airline and Hotel.

In the afternoon, we visited the Yukon Wildlife Preserve, and Lumel Studios. We learned about the various pre and post meeting activities there are to do in and around Whitehorse. 

We wrapped up the day with bites and samples from the Woodcutter’s Blanket new menu and YCB drew names for door prizes.

Thank you to all of our members, partners and sponsors for helping make this day possible – we couldn’t do it without you!

A big thank you to our sponsors and partners:

Standard Bus – Paul our AMAZING driver!

Air North, Yukon’s Airline

Beringia Interpretive Centre

Mt. Mac Curling Club

Yukon Transportation Museum

Skky Hotel & Tony’s Pasta & Seafood Restaurant

Kwanlin Dun Cultural CEntre

Edgewater Hotel, Coast High Country Inn & Downtown Hotel (Dawson City)

Yukon College Innovation Hub & Yukonstruct

Raven Inn

Yukon Wildlife Preserve

Westmark Whitehorse Hotel

Lumel Glass Studio

Woodcutter’s Blanket

Paradise Alley

White Pass Yukon Route

It’s Red Carpet Tour time again!
The 16th annual RCT is a Familiarization Tour for local meeting and conference planners. Its a full day of site inspections for local hotels, venues and operators, to keep local planners up to date on new product, updates and renovations. Its a fun and fast paced day, full of information and connecting with industry operators face to face. 
A BIG thank you to this year’s sponsors – Standard Bus Yukon and the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre for their continued support.
Breakfast and lunch are provided and transportation from the Beringia Interpretive Centre. 
Registration is now open, and space is limited, so DON’T WAIT!   (We do sell out)

info@ycb.ca 867-668-3555

September 8-12 YCB hosted four guests from Ottawa(2), Montreal and Washington DC for a busy and exciting 3 and a half day FAM tour of the Yukon. We visited Whitehorse and suburbs, Dawson City and Carcross with our visitors. This FAM tour helped familiarize key decision markers who have conferences and events planned for Whitehorse and surrounding areas. Our guests arrived to a warm and beautiful early fall scene.

A HUGE Thank you to the following Members for their warm welcomes and who assisted to make this all possible and a success;

Air North, Yukon’s Airline

Driving Force

Coast High Country Inn & Westmark Whitehorse Hotel

Klondike Travel

Wayfarer Oyster House, Gold Pan Saloon, Antoinettes, Steele St. Restaurant, the Deck, Sourdough Saloon(Downtown hotel)

Yukon Transportation Museum, Beringia Interpretive Centre, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Arts Underground,

Days Inn Whitehorse, Edgewater, Best Western Gold Rush Inn, Raven Inn

Husky Bus, Klondike Experience, Klondike Institute of Arts & Culture, Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, Parks Canada – Visitor Centre

Caribou Crossing Trading Post, Carcross Tagish Learning Centre, Lumel Glass Studios, North Light Innovation Hub/Yukonstruct

Business Events Canada

Thank you all for your continued support and participation with YCB; it is integral to our organization’s success!

July 3-6, YCB Hosted three guests in anticipation of the Thermal Insulation Association of Canada Conference, booked for Whitehorse in August of 2020. A fun-filled and productive 3 day visit from the President of TIAC, Andre and organizer of the convention, Robin, helped familiarize them with our partners’ venues, hotels, products and services available to the visiting delegates next summer.

A big THANK YOU to the following members who helped make this YCB FAM tour a success;

Air North, Yukon’s Airline,

Budget Car Rental,

Coast High Country Inn

Antoinette’s, Gold Pan Saloon, Burnt Toast, Wayfarer Oyster House, Woodcutter’s Blanket, Klondike Rib & Salmon

Raven Inn, Days Inn Whitehorse, Westmark Whitehorse, Best Western Gold Rush Inn, Edgewater Hotel

Klondike Travel, Mountain View Golf Course, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, MacBride Museum, Beringia Interpretive Centre, Yukon Transportation Museum, Yukon Wildlife Preserve, Yukon Brewing, Lumel Studio, ANTO Yukon

Thank you for your continued support and participation with YCB; it is integral to our organization’s success!

We are very excited to have new and previous members joining our Board for the 2019-2020 year.

(Left to right) Alida Munro, (YCB Director), Jennifer Logtenberg (YCB Sales Manager), Michele Tubman (Director), Adam Gerle (President), Angela Drainville (Vice-President), Jennifer Heffernan(Director), Wendy Reid(Director), Carmen Magro(Treasurer), and Leneath Yanson(Director).

Three businesses took home prizes at the Yukon Convention Bureau (YCB)’s its 9th Annual Bravo Award and Golden Bravo Awards held last February. Sponsored by Outside the Cube, Coast High Country and Gold Rush Inn, Westmark Whitehorse & Leaf Solutions, the event was a great success.

There was a tie for this year’s Bravo Award. The two winners are 2012 GoMedia Marketplace Host Committee and the 62nd Canada-France Convention. Both made significant efforts with all their 2012 events.

This year’s Golden Bravo Award was presented to Coast High Country Inn & Yukon Convention Centre for their outstanding service to the GoMedia Marketplace event.

Congratulations to all three of these years’ winners!

YCB would like to thank the following members and partners for the evening’s door prizes:

Air North – Yukon’s Airline,Yukon Brewing Company, North End Gallery, Old Log Church, Diamond Tooth Gerties, Morels at Coast HCI, Sport Yukon, Klondike Travel, Antoinette’s Restaurant, Cabin Fever Adventures!