AMPPE's
Collective Mission
Advocating for Excellent Visitor Experience in Canada’s Mountain Parks.
What Makes us Who we are
Visitor Experience
AMPPE is a proud host and wants to preserve the visitor experience through sound planning and partnership with park decision-makers.
Local Inclusion, Accountability and Transparency
AMPPE’s local business community and recreationalists seek to be involved in the decisions that impact their livelihoods and families. We believe park planning should be weighted and made in consultation with the local people who understand and make the parks their home
Ecological Integrity
AMPPE believes in healthy parks, our businesses depend on it. Conservation is fostered when park visitors experience nature in a deep and meaningful way.
AMPPE is the voice of local businesses & Mountain Parks enthusiasts. We work to ensure positive visitor experience & ecological integrity remain enshrined in the National Parks Act and & are equally recognized in Parks Management Plans.
Mission
We will achieve our purpose by working with our members/partners to:
- Foster positive and collaborative relationships with stakeholders, seeking to improve the Mountain Park experience.
- Advocate for meaningful and impactful policy and actions
- Communicate our messages across multiple channels, and amplifying them through our partners and members
Who We Are
Meet AMPPE’s Board Members
Alex Grant
AMPPE Board Member
Clare McCann
AMPPE Board Member
Marc Stelter
AMPPE Board Member
Lisa Darrah
AMPPE Board Member
Matthew Decore
AMPPE Board Member
Stavros Karlos
AMPPE Board Member
Tim Ricci
AMPPE Board Member
Tracy Lowe
AMPPE Board Member
Yannis Karlos
AMPPE Board Member
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Our Current Members
Our Current Members
Astoria Hotel
Backroads Canada Corp.
Baker Tilly Rockies
Banff Adventures
Banff Airporter
Banff Alpine Centre HI
Banff Aspen Lodge
Banff Hospitality Collective
Banff Lake Louise Hospitality Assoc.
Banff Lake Louise Tourism
Banff Lodging Company
Banff Mountain Holidays Ltd.
Banff Park Lodge
Banff Trail Riders
Barbara Kosterski
Bear Hill Brewing Company
Becker’s Chalets
BJPPC
BOWDA
Bow Valley Mountain Bike Alliance
Brewster Adventures
Brewster Mountain Lodge
CAMBA
Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts
Castle Mountain Chalets (Osprey Holdings)
Company of Adventurers
David Morrison
Discover Banff Tours
Diversified Transport Ltd.
Douglas Fir Resort & Chalets
Downtown Dental
Evil Dave’s Grill
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise
Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge
Francisco Gomez
Ian & Brenda Mackie
Improvement District No. 9
Jan & Mike Huminuik
Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce
Jasper Raft Tours Ltd.
Jasper SkyTram
Jasper Whitewater Rafting Company Ltd.
John Howard
Johnston Canyon Resort
Ken Read
Lake Agnes Tea House
Lake Louise Inn
Lake Louise Ski Area
Lake Louise Station
Liricon Capital Ltd.
Marmot Basin Ski Area
Moraine Lake Holdings
Mountaineer Lodge
Mount Robson Inn
Municipality of Jasper
Norbert Meier
Norquay Mystic Ridge Ltd.
Original Path Guiding-Scott Berry
Outdoor Council of Canada
Paradise Lodge & Bungalows
Pursuit Banff Jasper Collection
Rimrock Resort Hotel
RMV Publications Ltd./Where Canadian Rockies
Rockaboo Mountain Adventures Inc.
Rocky Mountaineer
Shadow Lake Lodge
Ski Banff Lake Louise Sunshine
Ski Big 3
Spring Creek Mountain Village
Stone’s Jewellery
Storm Mountain Lodge
Sunshine Village
SunDog Tours
Sunwapta Falls Resort
The Fudgery
Tourism Calgary
Tourism Industry Association of Alberta
Tourism Jasper
Travel Alberta
Via Via Moraine Lake Shuttle
White Mountain Adventures
Yamnuska Mountain Adventures
Our History
Sustaining Canada’s Mountain Parks Legacy
Since the creation of the first Park in 1885 visitors have come to Canada’s Mountain Parks to recharge, rejuvenate and experience the natural wonders of the mountains. From the beginning, the Parks were created for the “benefit, education and enjoyment” of Canadians and that the Parks should be left “unimpaired for future generations”.
AMPPE was created in 1994 by a group of concerned business owners and recreationalists in the Mountain Parks in part to respond to proposed new rules that would limit user access and the viability of experience providers. It was important that the input of the local business operators, citizens and recreationalists in the region was being shared with decision-makers. AMPPE became that voice and actively participated in the citizens roundtable to that study and in every subsequent management plan since then.
AMPPE has strived to act as a collective, place-based voice for the sustainability of the Mountain Parks and has consistently advocated for fair and balanced, science-based and locally driven perspective to decision-makers.
25 years later, AMPPE’s membership is continuing to carry this message forward.
