Today we launched a new website! Belugas, Birds and Blooms is our second of three stand-alone adventure websites to join the FNA family this year.
Our Elu Inlet Lodge adventure has been selected as one of National Geographic Traveler magazine’s 2009 Tours of a Lifetime, and will be featured in the May/June 2009 issue that hits newsstands on Tuesday, May 5!
The tours on this year’s list are organized into three categories—active, classic, and cultural. Elu Inlet Lodge has been listed in the “classic” category.
We are very excited to be a part of a unique four-week TV series entitled “Journey to the Edge of the World”, hosted by comedian Billy Connolly.
Billy spent the better part of 10 weeks making the 10,000 mile trip from Nova Scotia to the Pacific by sea, road and air, acting as a tour guide for viewers in his own unique way. His adventure was filmed for a new television series on the Seven Network in Australia and first aired on Saturday, April 25.
Frontiers North, along with our friends at the Canadian Tourism Commission, Yukon Tourism, Nunavut Tourism and Seven Network are contributing 5 nights accommodation at Elu Inlet Lodge to one lucky viewer in this trip of a lifetime to Canada’s north.
Here are some of the promotional videos that are currently running on the Seven Network in Australia.
Annually the Canadian Tourism Commission hosts in the United States Media Market Place. This event is designed to connect travel partners (FNA, for example), with travel media (journalists, authors, photo-journalists, bloggers, etc.). This year the event occurred in New York City at the The Waldorf=Astoria hotel on Lexington Avenue.
Make sure to double-click the image to see larger images with captions.
Here is a video of the Market Place floor:
Our staff had the opportunity to visit the VIA Rail station here in Winnipeg to get a better feel for the train accommodations that we currently offer on our adventures to Churchill. Currently, rail departures are included in all of our Belugas, Birds and Blooms adventures, and continue to be one of our most popular hotel-based Polar Bears in Churchill departures as well.
BTW, we celebrated Earth Hour here in the office all day Friday, March 27th, the day before Earth Hour occurred on Saturday, March 28th at 8:30 P.M. local time. Here are some images Laura F captured of our ‘celebration’.
A while back we blogged about our donation to WWF-Canada’s Earth Hour promotion.
Well, Earth Hour has come and gone, the WWF has determined their winners for the promotion and we’ve got them booked and good to go.
In the mail today we received a thank you card from soon-to-be-adventurers. Here it is.
Over the last couple weeks Jaime and John have been working with Stephanie Halperin, a student at The George Washington University School of Business, on her nominating Frontiers North in the Geotourism Challenge 2009.
The competition doesn’t wrap-up until the fall, so we’ll keep you posted.
Related to post number 8.
Hall Beach, 70 km from Igloolik, has submitted a request to increase their walrus hunt quota.
I could be way off, here, but I’m pretty sure Hall Beach and Igloolik ’share’ the same walrus population. Here is a cheasy screen-capture from Google Earth showing the location of the two communities and where the walrus live, around Rowley Island.
The debate is over!
Aggregation – verb – action word.
To form or group into a class or cluster.
As in:
“Polar bears aggregate in dense groups near Churchill, MB.”
Congregation – noun – person, place or thing.
A gathering or collection of people, animals, or things.
As in:
“Polar bear congregations occur near Churchill, MB.”
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