COMMUNITY

Working with our Community, Protecting the Environment.

The Banff Christmas Market is a small, locally owned business that believes in working with and working for our community. We employ local, showcase local, and give back to local charities and non-profits wherever possible. While the majority of our visitors come from the local Banff area, we are proud to host hundreds of visitors from the Canmore and Calgary area every year as well.

What local businesses do we work closely with:

• Banff Heritage Train Station

• Mt Norquay

• Banff Lake Louise Tourism

• Travel Alberta

What organizations do we support:

• Banff Skating Club

• Shine Foundation

Environment: Operating in a National Park

We have the great privilege of operating in a national park and with that comes great responsibility. Each year the Banff Christmas Market sets new goals for sustainable operations to ensure we are minimizing our environmental footprint and protecting our park.

The Banff Christmas Market is taking several steps of our own to work alongside the Town of Banff towards the 2050 goal of Zero Waste. Such actions include:

• Providing reusable shopping bags to guests for a small fee of $2 + GST

• Providing water refill stations for vendors & guests (located in Train Station)

• Providing reusable options, instead of single-use, whenever possible

• Incentive programs for bringing reusable mugs to the Market (save $1

  off your drink or purchase a Banff Christmas Market mug and get a free

  non-alcoholic drink of your choice!)

• Create & build décor from repurposed & up-cycled products

• Providing clearly labelled and accessible garbage, compostable and

  recycling receptacles throughout the Market

• Visit the Town of Banff website to learn more about Banff’s Zero Waste

  goals

The Banff Christmas Market encourages vendors to work towards reducing
waste at the market by taking the following steps:

• Opting for reusable products over single-use whenever possible

• Selling reusable shopping bags to omit paper and plastic single use bags

Volunteers

Do you love the holidays and want to be a part of the magic? We are looking for volunteers to help with market & décor set up/tear down, assisting the Marshmallow Station, and assisting the Letter to Santa Station. As a thank you, volunteers will receive 2 Banff Christmas Market tickets (valid for any day), 2 mulled wines, and one Banff Christmas Market toque - a total value of $70!

If this sounds like something you’d be into send us an email, banffchristmasmarket@gmail.com.