JOY'S IDEA GARDEN

Joy's Idea Garden

Consulting, Speaking, Garden Tour Director

Joyce Pearl Jones, MS, PHR, is an Eco-Garden Tourism Consultant, Garden Tour Director and Speaker, for groups in the tourism industry, both for leisure and business groups.

As CEO of GARDEN TOURS USA, a subidiary of JIG, Ms. Jones is a GARDEN TOUR Director who cosponsors garden vacations throughout the USA.

Her Heartland Garden, Sculpture and Edible Landscapes tour, cosponsored by Sunrise Tours of St Louis, is slated for May 8-11. Contact: travelsunrise.com p. 13 in the catalog, for details or to register for the tour.

As an EcoGarden Tourism Consultant, Ms. Jones assists tourism teams in leveraging the Public Garden attraction as an eco-friendly tourist destination for groups.

As such she consults with leadership teams in garden attractions, hotels, spas , resorts and CVBs. Her speeches explain the value ecogarden tourism holds for the future as we become more conscious of the carbon footprint caused by air travel.

As gardening is America's number one hobby, the potential travel market from garden tourists is unlimited.

Leadership teams and employee groups; family reunion and social groups; board of directors, medical centers and nursing homes, higher education groups and others will discover how to lower the carbon footprint of air/cruise travel by joining Ms. Jones on a custom designed Eco-Garden Tour, with eco-friendly transportation.

Convention and Visitor bureaus and Chambers of Commerce will benefit from Ms. Jones' travel and tourism industry expertise as a former hotel and resort executive and human resources leader. Her speeches focus on eco-garden tourism and how Garden-Golf tours are designed to capture the NEW GREEN TRAVELER.

Client Organizations

Joy's Idea Garden

HISTORY

Since l984,

clients include resorts and hotels, company headquarters, law firms, universities, entrepreneurs and conferences and more.

A partial list includes:

Hallmark Cards headquarters
Arlington and Majestic Resorts
Linde, Thompson law firm
Payless Cashways headquarters
Marion Merrill Dow Pharmeceuticals
United Telephone
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Penn State University (Pfaltsgraf corporation)
International Women's Association, Seoul, Korea
Augusta State University, Human Resources
Doosan conglomerate, Seoul, Korea

Public Gardens

Joyce Pearl Jones,

Eco-GardenTour Guide and certified Botanical Docent

Trained by Brookgreen Gardens as a volunteer Botanical Docent, Ms. Jones led garden tours through America's largest outdoor sculpture garden in 2003.

As a Tour Director, Ms. Jones specializes in Asian gardens (Japanese, Chinese, Korean) and other gardens-within-a-garden (i.e. Turkish Ottoman garden, Missouri Botancial Garden) that give the guest both a garden experience and an exotic cultural experience.

Ms. Jones continues to introduce garden lovers to the "gems" of garden tourism.

Her newest discovery?

The Garden of Infinite Compassion, a GEM of a garde, is a garden within a garden, is an Asian style, contemplative garden that she recently discovered in Ketchum, Idaho. Blessed by the Dalai Lama who delivered a 400 pound prayer wheel as a focal point in the garden, this garden was designed as a memorial to 9-11 victims and their families.

Kaufmann Memorial Gardens, Kansas City, is an intimate city garden and a good place to remember loved ones. Ms. Jones partnered in 2005 with professional speaker, author and gardener, Dr. Jean Lebudun Mairs of St Joseph, MO, to lead tours of this garden for spiritual groups.