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Need to get in touch with Tourism Winnipeg? For general inquiries please contact us through our general email
address. For all other inquiries please contact the appropriate person below. Tourism Winnipeg is a Division of Economic Development Winnipeg Inc. Click here for a complete staff listing of Economic Development Winnipeg Inc.

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Leadership

Chantal Sturk-Nadeau
Senior Vice President of Tourism
1 204 954 1987
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Chantal manages the integration of the tourism activities of Tourism Winnipeg to effectively and efficiently build the economic potential of tourism in Winnipeg.

Karen Goossen
Director, Market Development
1 204 230 8728
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Karen assists in leading the development and implementation of tourism activities in all markets.

Marketing & Communications

Cody Chomiak
Director, Marketing
1 204 954 1960
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Cody is responsible for marketing as it relates to Tourism Winnipeg. He executes strategic marketing plans to increase visitation to Winnipeg in all markets.

Nisha Tuli
Manager, Digital Marketing
1 204 954 1993
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Nisha is responsible for development and execution of online marketing strategies and manages social media programs and pegcitygrub.com. She also supports corporate communications and travel media.

Gillian Leschasin
Manager, Communications & Media Relations
1 204 954 1977
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Gillian is responsible for both writing and editing corporate communications, handling media requests, developing story ideas, and the travel media program.

Kelly Krebs
Marketing Coordinator
1 204 954 1995
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Kelly is responsible for managing the content of the Tourism Winnipeg publications and website, compiling earned media, responding to image requests and managing the internal image gallery and photo contest.

Sales & Service

Dario Di Nella
Business Development Manager
1 204 954 1984
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Dario is responsible for selling and promoting Winnipeg as the destination of choice for meetings and conventions.

Maria Cefali
Sales Manager, Meetings & Conventions
1 204 954 1981
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Maria is responsible for selling and promoting Winnipeg as the destination of choice for meetings and conventions. Her main focus is attracting association and corporate travel business to Winnipeg.

Natalie Thiesen
Sales Manager, Travel Trade
1 204 954 1978
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Natalie is responsible for selling and promoting Winnipeg as the destination of choice for the travel trade market.

Evan Andrew
Sales Manager, Sports & Special Events
1 204 954 1990
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Evan is responsible for attracting sports and special events to Winnipeg. Evan works with stakeholders in the sport and special event realm at Sport Manitoba, our facility partners, the City and Provincial sport and event departments as well as our tourism industry partners.

Larissa Peitsch
Project Manager
1 204 954 1994
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Larissa manages industry partnerships and is responsible for partnership communications and distribution of initiative leads and reports.

Sharon Kubrakovich
Client Services Manager
1 204 954 1989
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Sharon assists meeting, convention, sport and special event planners and organizers in hosting their event in Winnipeg.

Angela Trunzo
Sales & Research Coordinator
1 204 954 1983
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Angela is the assistant and coordinator for the Sales Managers and handles the RFP and bid requests. She is also responsible for tourism research and economic impact studies.

Laura Saj
Partnership Coordinator
1 204 954 1994
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Laura is responsible for the Team Winnipeg and Winnipeg Tour Connection partnerships and initiatives. She provides project-specific support to the meetings and conventions and travel trade team.

Visitor Services

Samantha Bason
Visitor Experience Manager
1 204 954 1985
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Samantha is responsible for visitor services and travel information outreach programs.

Nancy Evans
Visitor Experience Coordinator
1 204 954 1996
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Nancy is responsible in the delivery of front line visitor counseling and inventory management.