All Learning Opportunities
America’s Byways Resource Center uses comments from the byway community to develop the core learning areas of our conferences and workshops. We partner with government agencies, national organizations and leading experts to deliver relevant content for byway organizations.
Training Opportunities Catalog
America’s Byways Resource Center offers an extensive lineup of Tele-Workshops, webinars, workshops, and other learning sessions for late fall 2008 and early winter 2009. This catalog describes each event, including its featured topic area, any required materials or prerequisites.
National Scenic Byways Conferences
The National Scenic Byways Conference is a biennial conference providing an opportunity to network, explore new ideas and work as a group to enhance individual byways and the Federal Highway Administration’s National Scenic Byways Program. It’s the premier conference on scenic byways in the United States, attracting hundreds of byway leaders, volunteers and associates from across the country and around the world. America’s Byways Resource Center sponsors this major event every two years in cooperation with the National Scenic Byways Program and other partners.
Byway Tele-Workshops
America’s Byways Resource Center hosts workshops via telephone for the byway community. The Tele-Workshops are usually scheduled bimonthly and feature a guest speaker with expertise in an area of interest to byway groups. America’s Byways Resource Center produces a podcast or Fact Sheet after each Tele-Workshop to re-cap the call.
Webinars
America’s Byways Resource Center leverages Internet-based technology to provide multiple distance-learning opportunities. Join the discussion live or review the video of Webinars related to topics important to the byway community. Coming soon.
Grassroots Byways Hospitality Training
The Grassroots Byway Hospitality Training Program, which won a 2007 Scenic Byway Award, teaches byway representatives how to train locals who regularly interact with travelers about all aspects of the local byway. A certified trainer will work with the byway organization to “train the trainer.”
Contact A Certified Grassroots Byways Hospitality Trainer
Byways 101
Look for our new online self-study tutorial, Byways 101, coming soon in 2009.
Online Reading
America’s Byways Resource Center provides extensive online reading and study sessions for expanding your byway knowledge. Use the Topics section of this website to explore particular subject areas. Or visit the Resources section of the website to access Vistas and other publications.