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being successful


 rethinking self-image

 support infrastructure

 development

 community support

 marketing



 


Building Support Infrastructure

To quote a line from the film Field of Dreams, "if we build it, they will come". Current accommodations, personnel, and food service are built around seasonal work crews and consumptive wild life recreation – hunting and fishing. The fish camp style accommodations and limited food offerings made available to this predominately male group are not acceptable to gender balanced wildlife viewers comprised of 48.3% male and 51.7% female participants.

To successfully market itself as an eco-tourism destination, North Dakota must engage in customer centered development activities including enhancements in accommodations, food services, interpretation and authentic memorabilia.




  "People think it's about the birds and it is, but it's really how you make the brid watchers feel -- do you make them feel welcome?

Bill Thompson III Editor, Birdwatchers' Digest