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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