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February 17, 2023: Issue 40 |
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In This Issue:
- Fraserway RV Touring Guide Listing Deadline March 20, 2023
- British Columbia to Make September 30 a Paid Statutory Holiday
- ChatGPT: Tourism Has Yet To Learn The AI
- Warehouse Lien Process Explained
- go2HR offers you and your workers the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)
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Dear BCLCA Member:
This week we held our first Webinar of spring 2023 on Campground Maintenance and hosted a Reservation Panel. Over 40 members were registered and attended.
Chris Rhodes, Director of Operations, Eastern Resorts, Parkbridge and Steve Dunn, CEO, Purifyd Systems discussed Campground Maintenance from the perspective of maintenance schedules, what to maintain and the frequency and covered some health and safety concerns when dealing with Mould and Rodents. An outcome is that BCLCA is developing a maintenance schedule template for circulation to members.
The second part of the webinar covered Campground Reservation Systems and representatives Blaine Heldt, DigitelRez, Mike Yasieniuk, Let’s Camp, and Debbie Long, Campground Booking shared their systems capabilities and answered questions.
To watch the Campground Maintenance and Reservation Panel webinar recording access is via the link below:
Passcode: 7k7Z6M.^
Our next get together is the second Parking Lot round table with members to discuss Cancellation Policies. This is on February 23rd and then the second spring webinar is on March 15th.
Why not register!
FREE Parking Lot Series Registration:
FREE Webinar Registration: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 – 10:00 – 11:30 am
- Part 1 – The 5-Step Process to Starting a Glamping Business with Nick Purslow, Glampitect and Connor Schwab, Sage Real Estate
- Part 2 - Value of Having an App with Rose and Joe Duemig, App My Community
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FRASERWAY RV TOURING GUIDE LISTING DEADLINE MARCH 20, 2023
With the RV Rental Association of BC/Alberta Spring and Fall Guide being discontinued in 2020 due to COVID restrictions, Fraserway revamped the guide in 2022 and distributed it as part of their Customer Loyalty Program for their overseas and domestic rentals.
The touring guide is aimed at increasing shoulder season bookings; distribution of the guide occurs at all four of the Fraserway RV Rental stations in Alberta and BC; and an online virtual guide is being introduced in 2023.
To list in the guide please contact Anne at [email protected]. To access the media kit, with advertising and listing details click here. |
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BRITISH COLUMBIA TO MAKE SEPTEMBER 30 A PAID STATUTORY HOLIDAY
The BC government announced recently that Truth and Reconciliation Day will now be a paid statutory holiday starting September 30, 2023, and moving forward. In 2021, National Truth and Reconciliation Day was declared. Read the Provincial Government press release below.
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ChatGPT: TOURISM HAS YET TO LEARN THE AI
ChatGPT seems human, but it is just a huge, grandiosely structured data pot for which timeliness is poison. In the current approach of ChatGPT there is no real-time data, no prices and availabilities, no pictures and videos and of course no booking functions. A fortiori, there is no human affinity and classification.
ChatGPT does get a handle on the most complex formulas. The diversity of the travel business will probably be one of the last use cases this technology will comprehensively master.
You have never heard of ChatGPT? That would be remarkable. Google's news search alone lists more than two million editorial contents. Not bad for a chatbot that has been on the market in its current version, GPT-3, since November 2022, and that has been talked about as a "Google killer".
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WAREHOUSE LIEN PROCESS EXPLAINED
A BCLCA member asked, “When someone stores a RV at my facility and defaults on the storage fee payments do I have a legal claim on the RV to recover the storage fees?”
Answer - The Warehouse Lien Act allows storage facility operators to seize and sell a customer’s property, which in most cases in campgrounds is an RV or Trailer to cover unpaid storage fees.
If a warehouser does not get paid storage fees they are due, the warehouser can sell by public auction any goods on which they have a warehouse lien. In doing so, they must follow a process set out under BC law.
Written Notice of Intention to Sell
First, the warehouser must give written notice to specific parties that they intend to sell the goods. These parties include the owner of the goods, the person owing the storage fees, and anyone who had a registered security interest in the goods at the time the goods were left for storage.
The notice must describe the goods and the storage arrangements, as well as:
- an itemized statement of the warehouser’s charges, showing the amount due at the time of the notice,
- a demand to pay the charges due by a certain date, not less than 21 days from the delivery of the notice, and
- a statement that, unless the charges are paid by the date in the notice, the goods will be sold by public auction at a time and place set in the notice.
Advertise the Public Auction
If the warehouser’s charges are not paid by the date in the notice, the warehouser must advertise the public auction. The ad must be published at least once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper in the local area where the auction is to be held.
The warehouser must wait at least 14 days after the first ad is published before holding the public auction.
The BC Lodging and Campgrounds Association strongly encourages members to seek independent legal advice before attempting to exercise any seizure and sale rights under the Warehouse Lien Act. Failure to properly satisfy your legal obligations with respect to the seizure and sale of personal property could expose you to legal liability.
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go2HR OFFERS YOU AND YOUR WORKERS THE WORKPLACE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INFORMATION SYSTEM (WHMIS)
Completing the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) course is now easy! At go2HR they are offering this course online and at a competitive rate of $16!
Did you know, all persons in BC who work with or around hazardous products are required through regulation to have WHMIS training? Hazardous materials cause injuries in the workplace and by getting certified, workers can continue to work safe and prevent risk of injuries or diseases.
Individuals can register themselves or managers can sign up multiple workers to take their course online. Registration for the WHMIS course is available now!
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BC LODGING & CAMPGROUNDS ASSOCIATION
209, 3003 St. Johns Street, Port Moody BC V3H 2C4
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