Voices

Columbia tourism

You Affect Columbia’s Tourism

Learn how important you are to the success of the tourism industry and the things you can do to make Columbia the best destination possible.

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Discovering Your Strengths Through the Enneagram

The best way to discover your strengths, the Enneagram suggests, is by discovering your underlying motivations and then noticing what comes naturally.

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What Do We Do?

Exploring how the Convention and Visitors Bureau promotes tourism in Columbia and Boone County.

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The Summer of Suffrage

Last November, women accounted for 135 of the candidates for state and federal administrative, legislative, and judicial offices, a Missouri record. 

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The Economic Impact of Local Tourism

Bringing it to the local level, Boone County saw tourism expenditures exceeding $412 million dollars in FY2018, which supported over 11,000 jobs.

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Promoting Self-Awareness through the Enneagram

Self-awareness, once a term reserved for counseling sessions and contemplatives, has now become a widely acknowledged aspect of effective leadership.

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Governor Mike Parson … a Year Later

It’s been about a year since Mike Parson took over the governor’s office, but it’s been filled with enough activity to seem like a long time ago.

GM Expands in Wentzville

As often as not, something significant, with the potential to push everything else aside, will…

Networking

Networking Best Practices

Networking is integral to every business. You use networking, in part, to find new clients,…

Creating an Inclusive Culture

In my last piece for CBT, I spoke about how companies can improve their hiring…

Hopeful for the Future

Dear Editorial Staff: The April 2019 article “A Promising Property,” on the derelict Ameren lot,…

A Corner Lot

You know they want it all. “They” being the city of Columbia and “all” referring…