The Business Travel Network

Useful Links

• Clientis A special QACP partner for many years, Clientis invigorates your business development with concrete and effective solutions for sales representation, business training and sales advice. The company specializes in hotel and tourism training.
  
• Association québécoise de l’industrie touristique (French only) The Association québécoise de l’industrie touristique (AQIT), previously known as the Conseil québécois de l’industrie touristique (CQIT), is a non-profit association that brings together companies that are active in the Quebec tourism industry to promote and defend their interests and unite their efforts. Seeing that many sector-based associations were working separately on this in different tourism sectors, leaders in the sector decided in the spring of 2001 to set up an organization that would bring together tourism companies and speak on their behalf.
  
• Guideorganisateur.com (French only) The portal for event organizing in Quebec, Guideorganisateur.com helps and inspires event planners in Quebec to carry off successful ventures. Includes a directory of suppliers, news, trends, expert advice, an e-newsletter – everything you need to know to create imaginative events.
  
• Ministère du Tourisme du Québec (Tourism Quebec) - (French only) The Quebec government’s official tourism website includes all sorts of useful information. See the studies and statistics section to download various publications, mainly statistics on tourism in general and tourism forecasts.
  
• Tourism Zone - Cégep de Granby Haute-Yamaska (French only) The Cégep de Granby Haute-Yamaska site includes a page with many useful tourism links.
  
• Ministère du Tourisme du Québec (Tourism Quebec) – Directory of bursaries and international trade shows (French only)- This section of the site includes a directory of grants and international trade shows, for business or pleasure.
  
• Ministère du Tourisme du Québec (Tourism Quebec) – Registration forms for bursaries and international trade shows If you wish to take part in these delegations, fill out the registration forms available online.
  
• Réseau de veille en tourisme - Tourism intelligence network This site, which specializes in strategic tourism monitoring, offers Quebec companies and tourist organizations analysis and strategic information services designed to strengthen the industry’s competitive position and help participants adapt to changes in the field. The network is run by the Chaire de Tourisme and the École des sciences de la gestion at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
  
• Quebec council of human resources in tourism (French only) There are many ways to get training in the convention industry at the college or university level. Visit the Quebec Tourism Human Resource Council (CQRHT) site for job descriptions in our sector, which is often associated with the tourist sector. The Futurs travailleurs of the site describes various jobs, the skills required and the training needed.
  
• Blog - Lyne Branchaud (French only) A trainer and event planner, Lyne Branchaud writes a popular blog that includes information on subjects of interest for convention and event planners: tools, references, all the latest trends.
  
• Chair in Tourism School of Business Administration at the Université du Québec in Montréal The mission of the Transat Chair in Tourism is to foster the growth and outreach of the Quebec tourism industry by supporting research, education, and the dissemination of information.
  
• PDF to Word Turns nearly all kinds of PDF documents into Word files.
  
• Doodle A useful free online tool for planning meetings that involve several people. Simply indicate your choice of dates and times for a meeting and each participant can enter his or her availability. Then just choose a date and time when everyone is available – a great way to avoid endless rounds of telephone tag.