Recreation, Parks and Tourism
RETHINK has a long standing commitment to recreation, parks and tourism, having facilitated and authored:
- over 30 municipal parks and recreation master plans
- provincial tourism plans for both Ontario and Saskatchewan
- provincial recreation plans for British Columbia and New Brunswick
- sport development plans for BC, Alberta and the Calgary Olympic Development Association, and
- plans for related organizations such as the Canadian Parks and Recreation Associstion, SPRA, and Parks Foundation Calgary.
We hare heavily invested in three major leadership interventions designed to significantly shift the way we do business in the leisure industries:
- we have been involved in all three editions of the Benefits Catalogue – the third now an online Benefits Hub hosted by ARPA
- we provided the consulting support for the development of a Service Excellence Program for the recreation and parks field – defining core organizational competencies, practice guidelines and quality indicators
- Foresignt – monitoring trends, predictions and prescriptions for the leisure industries.
Return to our home page to connect with each of these initiatives.
Brenda Clarke was the policy analyst for Calgary Parks and Recreation, General Manager of the Lindsay Park Sports Centre (now Talisman Centre), managing consultant to the SW Calgary Family Leisure Centre, manager at Southland Leisure Centre (Calgary), CEO of the 1979 World Waterskiing Championships, and a YWCA Board members. Ken Balmer was an Executive Director in the YMCA sysem, served in several senior positions in Calgary Parks and Recreation, and served on the Board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary. He was also President of the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association.
