Joe Pavelka - Principal of Planvision Consulting Ltd. Alberta, Canada.
Joe has been consulting since the early 1990s. In that time he has worked with private, not-for-profit, and public sector clients in the areas of recreation, tourism, ecotourism and providing marketing, planning, and training services.
Experience & Projects
Sustainable Tourism Development
Contracted within Canada and many parts of Latin America.
The development of sustainable tourism destinations.
Seeking sustainable change that matches the resident way of life.
Developing and executing sustainable tourism and adventure tours
Provide traditional project consulting, project overseeing/mentorship of internal resources or workshop support.
International Student Field Schools
Post-secondary institutions seeking to build /proceed with international student short-term study abroad.
Understanding the ever-evolving world of global travel.
Build strategy/revising existing practices.
Design and execution of study abroad, risk analysis and mitigation, faculty mentorship, and student preparedness.
Provide project-specific consultancy services or workshop support.
Land Based Engagements
Tourism development
Delicate and complex land-based engagements that seek consensus.
Over thirty years of experience in designing, executing and overseeing partnership engagement processes in tourism and recreation/park contexts.
Planvision can provide traditional project consulting, project overseeing/mentorship of internal resources or workshop support.
Recreation and Parks
Over three decades of collaborations.
Worked with numerous municipalities and park agencies on mastering planning and facility development through to governance and niche issues.
Ten years as a practitioner in the field culminating as assistant director of large recreation and parks agency.
Deep understanding of park and recreation issues and processes.
Planvision can carry out project-based consultancy as well as workshop delivery on key areas to support internal resources.
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