Dragon Food Tour/

Turning Edmonton Chinatown into a guided food experience that drove traffic, participation, and repeat engagement.

IndustryTourism / Food / Culture
ScopeExperience Design / Brand / Campaign
FocusVisitor Experience & Foot Traffic
PROBLEM

A district full of food, but no visitor journey/

Chinatown had strong food businesses, but no packaged tourism experience connecting them together. Visitors needed a clear reason to explore multiple stops, stay longer, and return.

STRATEGY

Package discovery into a product/

Churchill Strategy designed the Dragon Food Tour as a low-barrier, story-led visitor experience that connected restaurants, bakeries, and cultural stops into one repeatable tourism product.

  • Guided food tour experience model
  • Vendor-connected visitor journey
  • Affordable entry-point pricing strategy
  • Storytelling-led district exploration
CAMPAIGN

Brand, route, and rollout system/

The campaign combined brand identity, tour operations, print materials, social promotion, and on-the-ground visitor experience design.

  • Dragon Food Tour brand and campaign identity
  • Sweet, savoury, and mini tour formats
  • Tour maps, passports, signage, and guide materials
  • Social content and event-linked promotion
3,000+ Participants
8+ Tour Stops
Multiple Tour Formats
Repeatable Tourism Product
OUTCOME

A scalable visitor experience/

The Dragon Food Tour created a structured tourism product that increased cross-business exposure, encouraged exploration, and gave visitors a clear, memorable way to experience Edmonton Chinatown.