Interactive Guest Experience Opportunity - Lantern Festival

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2025-10-15 · Toronto Zoo · adopted

As filed

The Board of Management of the Toronto Zoo: 1. Authorized the Chief Transformation Officer, or their designate, to negotiate and execute a commercial agreement with Zigong Lantern Culture Industry Group Co. to deliver a lantern festival experience in 2026, including a revenue-sharing agreement and an option to extend up to three years, all on terms acceptable to the Chief Transformation Officer and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

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2. Directed that the confidential information contained in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (September 30, 2025) from the Director, Guest and Site Operations remain confidential as it contains information about a position, plan, procedure, criteria or instruction to be applied to any negotiations carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the City.

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As the city filed it

This report recommends that the Toronto Zoo enter into a partnership with Zigong Lantern Group to host a lantern festival in Fall 2026.

Staff recommended

The Director, Guest and Site Operations, Toronto Zoo, recommends that: 1. The Board of Management of the Toronto Zoo authorize the Chief Transformation Officer, or their designate, to negotiate and execute a commercial agreement with Zigong Lantern Culture Industry Group Co. to deliver a lantern festival experience in 2026, including a revenue-sharing agreement and an option to extend up to three years, all on terms acceptable to the Chief Transformation Officer and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

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2. The Board of Management of the Toronto Zoo direct that the confidential information contained in Confidential Attachment 1 remain confidential as it contains information about a position, plan, procedure, criteria or instruction to be applied to any negotiations carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the City.

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