One of the Yukon’s most experienced tourism sales and operations professionals, Robin has worked for some of the north’s best established tour companies including:
Ruby Range Adventure
Responsible for developing and implementing the sales and marketing plan including attending trade shows, conducting sales calls and agent training seminars, producing a quarterly newsletter, designing/calculating/writing descriptions for new products, designing and calculating custom group tour series’, facilitating reservations and coordinating daily communications with tour wholesalers and direct inquirers. Also tasked with diversifying the products offered by creating a new product line within the company catering to the independent travel market; and implementing a sales and marketing strategy to effectively capture a share of that new market.
Latitude Destination Management
A start up, and the Yukon’s first fully-focused destination management company, Latitude designs and manages meeting and incentive travel programs for a wide variety of clients from across Canada and around the world including national association meetings, the world’s ambassadors to Canada,, numerous federal-provincial-territorial ministers meetings and corporate travel programs for some of Canada’s most recognized companies. The success of the meetings division prompted the establishment of a holiday travel division, and in 2009, Latitude hosted more than 1200 visitors from more than 15 countries on vacations throughout Yukon, Alaska, Northwest Territories and the Rockies.
Rocky Mountain Campers
Robin was responsible for managing the company’s busiest location (Vancouver). He oversaw a team of more than 30 staff while managing a 4000 square foot facility servicing more than 200 motorhomes, and hosting holiday travellers from around the world.
Rainbow Tours / All Alaska Tours
Robin was responsible for coordinating operations for both the Yukon and Alaska divisions of the company, overseeing the seasonal staff, attending trade shows, and conducting familiarization tours, designing/costing/writing descriptions for new tour products. Robin’s career with the company started as a tour guide and he later became the head tour guide.