Priority Action!                                   Nov 17, 2010

Welcome to the November 2010 issue of the Northern Forest Tourism Network E-Newsletter!  Stick season is upon us, and the simple quiet of this time of year provides us with a chance to refocus ourselves after the busy summer and fall.

In this issue, we invite you to join us in revisiting the priority action plans that we created together last March, both to note our progress to date and to plan for our next steps.  A clear target on the horizon for us is the second Summit for the Northern Forest, scheduled for May 4-5 at the Mountain View Grand in Whitefield, NH.  This will provide us with an opportunity for the next in-person gathering of this network and we look forward to making considerable progress over the next six months so that we can enter the Summit with solid accomplishments in place to inform our conversations and our planning.

A key question for all of us as we move this network effort forward is what will success look like?  There is no quick answer, but I encourage all of you to consider that question as you read through this issue of the newsletter.  In my view, our success will involve both creating effective collaborations that provide us with new regional capacity and delivering specific outcomes linked to our priority action areas.  In short, our success will include encompass both how we work and what we do.  I look forward to hearing your visions of success and to joining with you to get us there.

The overall purpose for this network and these newsletters is to share information among tourism practitioners across the region in order to improve outcomes for all.  As always, your input and contributions are welcome.  Have ideas now?  Share them on our blog.  Please feel free to share this e-mail with other tourism practitioners, and don’t hesitate to contact Kate Williams with any questions.

Cheers,

Kate Williams, Northern Forest Canoe Trail