Project Overview

The Maine Woods Consortium, The Northern Forest Center and the Maine Office of Tourism have partnered to deliver a series of Tourism Community Destination Academies across the Maine Woods region. A Community Destination Academy (CDA) is a tourism product development and destination planning program, customized to the needs of a specific destination area. The overall goals of the Maine Community Destination Academy are to:

• Develop working cohorts of business, non-profit, and municipal leaders in high potential Rural Destination Areas.
• Build a common set of skills and knowledge for successful, long-term sustainable destination development.
• Deliver technical and financial assistance for implementation of local destination development projects identified as priorities by program participants.
• Build confidence and a track record of successful collaborative project implementation as a foundation for ongoing product development and marketing.