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Atlantic Explorer - PEI, Nova Scotia & Newfoundland
Whether it’s sampling freshly shucked oysters on a fisherman’s wharf or tasting wild blueberry wine in one of the world’s more improbable vineyards, this journey will leave you overwhelmed by the warmth and ingenuity of the Maritime people. (click for full details...)

Arctic Southbound - Ancient Glaciers & Klondike Gold
Travelling to the Northwest Territories and the Arctic Ocean, to Yellowknife, Tuktoyaktuk and Inuvik. Cross the Arctic Circle; panning for gold in Dawson City; riding the White Pass & Yukon Railway; sailing in Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage. (click for full details...)

Backstage Tours
Go backstage to see where costumes are made and theatre is created (click for full details...)

Bell Homestead National Historic Site, Brantford, Ontario
The Bell Homestead National Historic Site is an impressive mid-Victorian dwelling that was home of Alexander Graham Bell and his parents following their immigration from Scotland to Canada in 1870. (click for full details...)

Canadian Rockies - The Ultimate Mountain Adventure
The Ultimate Mountain Adventure! Imagine a place at the top of the world where the air is clear, a mountain pinnacle dusted with snow and girded by deep, lush valleys... (click for full details...)

Costume Warehouse Tours
50 years of props and costumes on displays- tens of thousands of items to view (click for full details...)

Create Engaging Tourism Images Through Heritage Interpretation
This session will help you identify the resources your community can tap into to generate a more compelling tourism image through heritage interpretation. This is a timely topic, as Saskatchewan and Alberta celebrate their Centennial in 2005. (click for full details...)

Family Vacation Package
Family vacationing made easy, educational and fun! Make the most of your vacation, visit some of Ottawa's most popular attractions and sites. (click for full details...)

Garden Tours
tour our gardens with an expert (click for full details...)

Gaspé - The Magical Percé Coast
Travelling round the Gaspé Peninsula, its spectacular scenery and storied past. Its vast unspoiled parkland, lighthouses, fishing villages and rocky coast. The fabled Rocher Percé. The tranquil farms of Île-aux-Coudres. An Old Québec that's relaxed, friendly and easy to love. (click for full details...)

Generate Better Media Coverage of Your Community Initiative
When should you issue a press release, a media advisory or simply pick up the phone to let media outlets know about your project? This session will introduce you to the various tools you can draw on when you craft your communications plan, with special emphasis on tapping into unpaid advertising opportunities. (click for full details...)

How to Get the Most out of your Trade Show Participation
You will find Claude-Jean Harel’s insight not only entertaining but also priceless and immediately applicable to your situation, regardless of the size of your organization. (click for full details...)

Nova Scotia - Cabot Trail & Bras D'Or Train
Enjoy the full flavour of the Maritimes in this holiday, staying in well known resorts steeped in history and character on our journey through the most famous sights... (click for full details...)

Let Freedom Ring
Step into the footprints of a freed slave and explore Ontario’s first self-sufficient community for fugitive and free Blacks. (click for full details...)

Life in the Past Lane - Days Inn
Take a retro-ride through the colourful beginnings of Canada's founding history. (click for full details...)

Life in the Past Lane - Radisson
Life in the Past Lane Kingston Highbrow Heritage Take a retro-ride through the colourful beginnings of Canada's founding history. (click for full details...)

Literary Newfoundland
A unique literary journey exploring dramatic scenerey and story telling traditons of Newfoundland, from the serene coast of the Avalon Penninsula to whale-rich waters of Bonavista Bay, from the cosmopolitain cultural charms of St John's to the picturesque streets of Trinity. (click for full details...)

Milner Gardens & Woodland, Qualicum Beach
Seaside estate with 60 acres of Douglas-fir woodland & 10 acres of garden surrounding a heritage house; gardens include a unique collection of over 500 rhododendrons (click for full details...)

Niagara Cycling
This self-guided bike tour takes you to the highlights of this beautiful area: topnotch wineries, majestic Niagara Falls, charming Niagara-on-the-Lake, Lakes Erie and Ontario, lovely countryside, and the engineering marvel of the Welland Canal. (click for full details...)

One-day Product Development Workshop
This one day workshop will give you the tools to start developing a unique tourism product - by finding unexplored opportunities in your community. (click for full details...)

West Coast Explorer - The Pacific Rim & Rockies by Rail
From Vancouver up and around to Victoria, this new travel experience is blessed with mountains, rocky coasts, rugged strands of timber and tranquil gardens, friendly towns nestled in settings of great natural beauty. (click for full details...)

Placemaking: the Art of Building your Community
As an applied anthropologist actively involved in community tourism development projects in Canada and the United States, Great Excursions CEO Claude-Jean Harel provides first hand experience of the conditions required for effective placemaking and of the ways to create the right community environment for it to occur. (click for full details...)

Smart Teambuilding
Great Excursions CEO Claude-Jean Harel will share with participants some of the wisdom of his years of international experience as a television producer, trainer and tourism developer with a view to rural communities. (click for full details...)

Spirits Rising
Animated walking tours / Costumed interpretation / Demonstrations / Historical dramatizations / Site or park interpretation / Storytelling (click for full details...)

Newfoundland & Labrador - The Viking Trail
An in-depth trek through Canada's land of iceberg and whales. Red Bay in Labrador was a whale watching centre for Basque sailors in the 16th century and L'Anse aux Meadows goes back even further to 1000 A.D., when the Vikings made it the first European settlement in North America. (click for full details...)

Staging the "Lived Reportage"
Through photographic documentation of "behind the scene" tourism experiences staged at Great Excursions, this session will demonstrate how the "lived reportage" approach can help generate new tourism products and unpaid advertizing opportunities. (click for full details...)

The Archaeological Field Trips at School Series
At a time when many prairie communities are struggling with issues of sustainability, it is useful to take a fresh look at their beginnings as innovative systems of settlement – systems well adapted to the prevailing environmental, economic and social realities of the day. (click for full details...)

Arctic Northbound - Alpine Tundra & The Inside Passage
Sailing the Inside Passage; riding the White Pass & Yukon Railway; following the Trail of '98 to Dawson to pan for gold; crossing the Arctic Circle; visiting Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk and Yellowknife. (click for full details...)

The Gardeners Cottage, Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario
Garden dining experience (click for full details...)

Understanding the Railway Town
Railway towns were conceived as service points for the needs of Canada’s first industrial-era transportation network, but the way they were designed holds much more meaning than appears at first glance. (click for full details...)

Walter's Greenhouse & Garden Centre, Brantford, Ontario
Pansy Festival - 2nd weekend in September (click for full details...)




Ottawa Tourism
Ottawa Tourism and Convention Authority is the National Capital Region’s membership-based tourism marketing organization. It is dedicated to promoting and enhancing the profile of Ottawa as a tourist and convention destination among travelers, meeting and convention planners, the media and political and local business communities. (click for full details...)