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Cellular Service a Go in Churchill

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

We have an update from a story we posted on our blog in January about MTS rolling out cellular services to customers in Churchill. MTS Allstream has confirmed in an emailer sent out to its current clients that it will indeed be expanding its wireless network to eight new rural Manitoba communities in 2010 – including Churchill. New coverage to this area is slated to begin by mid-2010.

We have received a number of comments both on our blog and on our Facebook Fan Page stating both praise and criticism with this new services in the area. What are your thoughts now that cellular services in Churchill is pretty much a done deal?

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New York Times Travel Show

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

After our visit to the Philadelphia Zoo, we travelled to New York City last Thursday to participate in the 2010 New York Times Travel Show. Little did we know a pretty big snowstorm awaited us! There was concern that the turnout for the show was going to be a lot less than previous years. However, on Saturday the snow stopped and the sun actually peeked through the clouds and we had one of the best turnouts yet! We greeted lots of eager travellers at our two booths and had a blast talking about not only our Authentic Arctic Experiences, but also about the much anticipated US/Canada Winter Olympic Men’s Hockey match up (that we’d later win of course!).

Check out some images of our time in New York City:

Tags: New York Times, Philadelphia Zoo, Travel
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Philadelphia Zoo Visit

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

In between the Boston Globe and the New York Times Travel Shows, we had the opportunity to visit Philadelphia and meet with our good friends at the Philadelphia Zoo yesterday. We have a great relationship with many zoos across the United States and partner with them to host zoo tour groups in Churchill to further educate them on polar bears in their natural environment and the effects they face from climate change.

Kristen, the director of education for the Philadelphia Zoo, took us on a cool tour of the facility. Our favourite was the polar bear exhibit but we may be a bit biased! Check out some of the images of our morning adventure.

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2010 Boston Globe Travel Show

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Over this past weekend, we participated in the 2010 Boston Globe Travel Show in Boston, Massachusetts. It was our first time exhibiting at the show and we had a great time meeting new and exciting people who are as passionate about travel as we are. We were very busy fielding questions about our most recent feature on NBC, and about our Polar Bears in Churchill adventures. We had some great conversations with many interested New Englanders and we cannot wait to host them this year in Canada’s North! Next stop – New York City for the New York Times Travel Show! If you are in the area, Grant and Jaime would love to see you there!

Here are some highlights of Boston Globe Travel show:

Our booth

Grant explaining our Tundra Buggy Lodge Adventure to some travel enthusiasts.

Grant with our good friend Richard of Cruise North Expeditions

Great crowds on Saturday!

Jaime with the great Pauline and Arthur Frommer

Grant and his new friends from Nova Scotia!

Another busy crowd on Sunday.

Tags: Boston, Boston Globe Travel, Frommers, NBC, New England, New York City
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Adventure Coordinates

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

We recently received feedback from a guest wondering about the coordinates that we use along with our logo in some of our literature. We love that our guests are that passionate about our company and figured this would be a good opportunity to explain this particular detail of our branding and identity further.

As part of our brand, we have two coordinates by our logo, as reflected in the image below. They represent the two major regions in Canada’s north in which we host guests:

Northern Manitoba +58 -94

and

Nunavut Territory +72 -78

We love questions about our company, so please feel free to send us an email or comment on our blog and we’d be happy to answer!

Tags: Manitoba, Nunavut
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Buggy Bear at Festival

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

This past weekend our very own Buggy Bear took to Festival du Voyageur alongside PBI Leadership Camp student, Ruth Sangalang. For those who have never been to Festival du Voyageur, it is a 10-day Manitoba-wide celebration of the fur traders, who established the Red River Colony and the French-Canadian community in Western Canada.

Buggy Bear is also scheduled to make an appearance on Saturday, February 20 at 3:00pm for the All-Mascot Challenge foot race being held at Voyageur Park. If you’re in the area please come cheer him on!

Here are some photos taken this past weekend:

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NBC’s Polar Bear Pilgrimage

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

NBC has published online the Churchill polar bear vignette that aired Monday during their prime-time coverage of the Winter Olympics. BIG thanks to NBC who, when considering a trip to experience Churchill’s polar bears, contacted us. With Skal’s 2009 International ecotourism award and 30 years of Tundra Buggy Adventuring under our belt, we think they made the right choice.

Enjoy!

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Tags: NBC, Winter Olympics
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Welcome NBC Olympic Viewers!

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Earlier this evening on, eastern standard time during their Olympic coverage NBC aired a vignette recounting their time spent with us in Churchill during November 2009.

In terms of media guests, the NBC crew we hosted was first class, the whole way!

As a result of the segment our websites crashed — GREAT PROBLEM TO HAVE, BY THE WAY – We immediately worked with our good friends and website host provider Daemon Defence Systems and ramped-up our hosting capability to accommodate the traffic. We’re now firing on all cylinders!

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Friday Fun

Friday, February 5th, 2010

It’s been a while since we posted some polar bear footage that we captured this past autumn up in Churchill on our Tundra Buggy adventures. So, we decided to have some fun and put together a little video to celebrate the end of the work week.

We hope you enjoy and have a great weekend!

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Cell Service in Churchill, MB

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

We suppose it’s a sign of the times. We’ve got it on very good authority that cell service will be unrolled in Churchill on April 1st, 2010.

We’re not sure how we feel about this. If service reaches into the Churchill Wildlife Management Area, where most of our Tundra Buggy adventuring occurs, there are at least two potential outcomes:
1) We may better fulfill our guests’ expectations of available services at a tourism destination, or
2) We may negatively impact the integrity of our adventure tourism product.
Again, we’re not sure how we feel about cell phones ringing in the background while a guest first locks their gaze with a polar bear…

With upwards of 10,000 international guests visiting the community of 800 people on an annual basis, whichever way you slice it, MTS is going to make a mountain in roaming charges. What are your thoughts on cellular service in Churchill? We welcome your thoughts.

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