Archive for May, 2009

FNA at Rendez-vous Canada

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

From May 10th – 13th Lynda, Merv and John attended Rendez-vous Canada, our country’s largest tourism marketplace, where ‘buyers’ from all the world meet on our turf and we’ve got three days of approximately 50 scheduled 15-minute speed dates with our global resellers and partners. Lynda is the speed-date champion, hands down.

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RVC is so important for our organization because it is the one time every year where we have face-time with decision makers to strike deals and strengthen relationships with our extensive network of selling partners.

The show was a complete success, our hosts Travel Alberta put on a great show and Travel Manitoba hit the ball out of the park with their hosted events enticing participants to attend RVC 2010 when it will occur in Winnipeg.

Rendez-vous Canada

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Every year, we participate in a number of adventure travel shows around the United States. This is a great opportunity for us to speak to potential guests, members of the travel trade, and select media about our company and educate them on our unique adventures. 

Of the hundreds of exhibitors at both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Travel Shows, Trip on a Deal and ESC2DAY decided to feature us on their video casts.  
Check it out!


Project Polar Bear

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

A few months ago we were approached by Polar Bears International (PBI) to sponsor an initiative called Project Polar Bear. The goal of this initiative is for teams of high school students to come up with ways to reduce their carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions in their communities. The participating teams were from all over North America, with three finalists headed to San Diego for the announcement of the grand prize winner. 

We were very happy to donate the grand prize – a trip for four to Churchill to experience first-hand the effects of climate change on polar bears to the winning team - Brandie Farkas and Emily Goldstein of Louisville, Kentucky. This trip also occurs at a time when we host world-renowned polar bear researchers and scientists, so the winning team will get a great opportunity to understand how much their efforts in reducing their carbon footprint greatly impact the arctic and subarctic ecosystems. 
Here are some images that were taken a few weeks ago in San Diego.

Group photo of Project Polar Bear finalists and PBI Staff.

The Vickery sisters, second place winners, feed a beluga whale at Sea World San Diego

More behind the scenes fun for the finalists at Sea World San Diego
The Vickary team, second place winners from Winnipeg, Manitoba!
The grand prize winners, Brandie Farkas and Emily Goldstein of Louisville, Kentucky
All images © Tanya & Daniel J. Cox/NaturalExposures.com

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