With things looking up for tourism in Ontario, Regional Tourism Organization 8 (RTO8) is opening a new seasonal visitor centre in the Town of Hastings in Trent Hills later this spring.
The Kawarthas Northumberland Visitor Centre is located at Lock 18 along the Trent-Severn Waterway. An official opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place in late May.
RTO8 is a not-for-profit organization funded by the Ontario government to market the Kawarthas Northumberland region as a tourism destination to bring visitors to Kawartha Lakes, the city and county of Peterborough, and Northumberland County.
The organization is now hiring two full-time student travel counsellors for the new visitor centre. The minimum-wage contract positions, which are open to those between 15 and 30 years of age, will run from early May to mid-August.
For more information and to apply, visit rto8.com/external-job-posting/. Applications are due by April 22.
RTO8 has also partnered with local tourism hubs to bring digital kiosks into staffed locations across the region. The kiosks will be located in Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, Campbellford, Fenelon Falls, Hastings, Havelock, Lakefield, Lindsay, and Peterborough
