FEWER CARS, LESS IMPACT

Park operators can differentiate between types of visitors, such as private car arrivals, private operator clients, public transit users, traditional land owners, local residents, and many others - and create rules for each to fit management priorities

DISPERSE OVERTOURISM

ParkPass is an efficient solution to introduce and manage visitor quotas for parks suffering from over-visitation. Operators can define limits for access points, time slots, or visitor types.

MORE VISITORS, IN RIGHT PLACES

ParkPass helps drive visitors from peak times and destinations to alternatives that are looking for more visitors, or to shoulder seasons. Multiple agencies can redirect visitor traffic to each other.

PREPARE YOUR VISITORS

Introduce automated pre-departure checklists so every visitor to your parks knows what to expect, and when to come - before they leave their house.

IMPROVE SAFETY

ParkPass offers trip planning tools to promote safer experiences for visitors, and emergency notification tools for park operators. Contact current visitors instantly in case of park emergency, and share trip details with SAR teams if needed.

VISITOR STATISTICS

ParkPass allow park operators to collect and analyze visitation data, survey visitors and continuously learn and get better

CAPTURE MORE REVENUE

Send more visitors to lesser-known parks and off-peak times where spare capacity exists - and collect more revenue.

INCREASE COMPLIANCE

ParkPass is a perfect solution for parks where checking every visitor on entrance is impractical, such as mixed development regions, marine parks and commercial operator-driven tourism

LOWER INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS

Reduce reliance on collecting entrance fees at physical park locations even with limited connectivity and remote locales with no Internet

Boris is the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning Parkbus initiative, the world’s first dedicated city-to-park bus service that expanded across Canada and inspired similar initiatives around the world. Boris brings a wealth of entrepreneurial and IT experience, and he is passionate about parks and protected places.

Boris won numerous awards for his work, which was featured by over 200 publications including the National Geographic.

Boris holds an MBA as well as a computer science degrees.

Vitaly is a software engineer who architected, automated and deployed intricate analytics solutions, and complex distributed environments that handle billions of transactions every day.

He is director of engineering at Panvista Analytics, and a key advisor for several other companies, including Parkbus, on technology, automation, scalability and security.

Stephanie is the General Manager of BEST. She turned a small Bicycle Valet program in Vancouver into an extremely popular, successful social enterprise, while leading several other projects, and helping BEST achieve financial stability.

Stephanie has extensive experience working with government, nonprofit and private organizations, and holds a Masters of Community Development and a Bachelors in Human Geography.

Alan has extensive senior leadership experience in the fields of public policy, conservation, tourism and protected area management. As CEO of Parks Canada for 13 years, he oversaw one the most significant National Parks expansion in the organization's century of operations.

Alan also led the most significant ecological restoration program, has twice chaired the World Protected Areas Leadership Forum (WPALF), received the 2014 Fred Packard Award from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and has been inducted in the Canadian Tourism Hall of Fame.

Under Mr. Latourelle's leadership, a Reader's Digest survey ranked Parks Canada as the third-most-trusted institution in Canada. Alan has recently been appointed to the Order of Canada. He has an MBA from Queen’s University and a BA in accounting from the université du Québec in Hull.

Maike has worked in multiple functions in the tech and travel industry over the past 15 years. At Booking.com she is part of Strategic Projects Team and helps as a Global Change Manager with the integration of New Products & Services or Businesses.

She had previously worked at Expedia where she was the Senior Project Manager at Global Customer Operations and at Yahoo where she was the Senior Manager responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

In her free time she loves traveling and is very interested in keeping the planet and it’s communities in good shape for future generations of travellers.

Rochelle is Director of Research at the World Travel and Tourism Council and is responsible for the design and execution of the research that underpins the work of the organization. The policy and economic research undertaken for the Council ensures that recommendations and advocacy to governments are supported by rigorous methodologies.

Rochelle has spent her whole career in consumer and market research within the tourism sector. She has held senior roles at Which?, the UK's consumer organisation, TUI Travel and MORI (now Ipsos-MORI) where she was the lead for leisure research. Rochelle holds an MSc in Tourism Management from the University of Surrey and an LLDip from the College of Law, UK.

For the past 5 years, Michael has held a number of leadership roles at at the the City of Toronto, including Project Manager of Visitor Services, Economic Development & Culture, Acting Manager of Tourism Services, and Supervisor of Pan Am/Parapan Am Games Tourism.

Michael spent time in China developing local tourism businesses specializing in outdoor education, and managed hospitality programs at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010, London 2012 and Rio 2016.

Michael is currently a professor and program coordinator at School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts at Centennial College in Toronto.

Lindsay is a Senior Brand Manager for New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC). She brings in wealth of public and private sector experience in the tourism industry, including leading the marketing department at Urban Adventures, developing food and beverage tourism strategies for DMOs with the Culinary Tourism Alliance, and founding Stormfree Agency.

She has a Master's in Tourism Management (Distinction) from the University of Surrey, and a BA in Geography from the University of British Columbia. In 2015, Lindsay was named to the Phocuswright Young Leaders Class of 35 Under 35.

Dr. Rachel Dodds is a Professor as well as past Director of the Hospitality and Tourism Research Institute at Ryerson University in Toronto. Rachel has over 25 years of tourism experience working with tour operators, destination management companies, accommodation facilities, festivals and NGOs. Rachel has published hundreds of articles about sustainable tourism and is internationally regarded as an expert in this field. She is currently editing a book on Overtourism with Professor Richard Butler.

Rachel holds a PhD from the University of Surrey in the UK and a Masters degree from Australia. She has lived and worked in four continents and travelled to over 80 countries.

Adrian is an entrepreneur and experienced software engineer who founded Turn Off The App - Go Outside, or TOTAGO. TOTAGO is focused on bringing together transportation and trail information to expand access to parks, wilderness, and open space. The TOTAGO app makes it easy to find and plan hiking trips and other outdoor activities using public transit, shuttles, and other car-free transportation. TOTAGO works with clients and partners including the U.S. Forest Service, King County, VancouverTrails, Wilderness Society, among others. Adrian also leads the API Highways initiative for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) where he has built relationships with organizations across public, private and NGO sectors.

Justin has been developing innovative and award-winning tourism initiatives and collaborative partnerships across Canada for over 15 years, including the Bike Train Initiative, Ontario Cycle Tourism Forum, LGBT Tourism Development Initiative, Stroll Windsor, Windsor-Essex Bike Bus, amongst others. He was named Ontario's Tourism Innovator of the year in 2011 for his work on BikeTrain.

Justin recently led the development and launch of the Ontario Tourism Innovation Lab, an incubator seeking to spark and support new tourism ideas and entrepreneurs through mentorships and start-up grants.

Olya is a co-founder of the Frost Methane project to detect, characterize and mitigate concentrated methane (a potent greenhouse gas) releases from arctic permafrost thaw.

Prior to Frost Methane, Olya was a system architect at Strong Atomics, working on clean energy in Sub Saharan Africa for Off Grid electric, and she lead a team at Google Energy working to enable universal access to zero-carbon energy. She also worked at Google X, firm's subsidiary focused on developing early stage, high impact projects.

Olya has a Masters in Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto, and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.

Roy is one of Canada's top cybersecurity experts and is a Chief Product Officer at Cycura Inc - Toronto based IT security company.

Roy is a strategist, seasoned hacker and expert in cyber security business development and project management. He has a background in security, programming, research, management, marketing, sales and a unique ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects while navigating complex cyber challenges. Roy's passion lies in Big Data and Machine Learning, especially when applied to cyber security. As a multi-linguist of technology-driven business, he speaks fluent geek, marketer, designer, salesperson and investor.

Michael is the project manager of Ontario By Bike, Ontario's leader in bicycle tourism development. He has 20 years experience in sustainable tourism ranging from guiding to community-based tourism initiatives to developing indigenous tourism programs.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Tourism Management and a MA in Tourism and currently gives back to the industry as a part-time professor and volunteer opportunities in areas of tourism workforce and career development. He loves ‘playing in the woods’ with his family and riding his bike. Chat travel, music, tech, food and beer when you meet.