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Touting a '2-nation vacation'
by Outspoken on Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:49 am
Touting a '2-nation vacation'
By Bill Trotter
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
YARMOUTH, Nova Scotia - Maine is not visible from this Canadian town, but tourism officials on both sides of the Gulf of Maine are hoping that, in this case anyway, out of sight does not mean out of mind.
After all, it takes about the same amount of time to get from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, as it does to get from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Maine. And for now, anyway, you don’t need a passport to get there, according to tourism officials.
"There’s a trend that people are looking for multiple-destination vacations," Patricia Eltman, executive director of the Maine Office of Tourism, said Monday. "Our northern neighbors mean a great deal to us. We share a lot of the same [tourism] goals and strategies. We share the same market."
Eltman was among a small contingent of tourism officials from Maine that traveled Monday to Nova Scotia for a three-day trip aimed at promoting the "two-nation vacation" idea by which people travel to both Maine and to nearby Canadian provinces. To get there, they took the only direct, earthbound link between Maine and Nova Scotia — Bay Ferries Ltd.’s Cat ferry, which makes round trips between Yarmouth and Maine. Three days a week it leaves from Bar Harbor and four days a week it leaves from Portland.
The weather Monday morning made for a smooth ride for the ferry, which left Bar Harbor at 9 a.m. Besides Eltman, Maine tourism officials on the trip included Chris Fogg, executive director of the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce; George Driscoll, vice president of marketing and sales for Bay Ferries; Carolann Ouellette and Charlene Williams, both with the Maine Office of Tourism; and Lianon Close, marketing manager for the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Portland.
In Yarmouth, the group and members of the Maine media who accompanied them for the day attended a luncheon along with approximately 20 Canadian tourism officials at Rudder’s Seafood Restaurant and Brewpub, located on the water a few hundred yards north of the ferry terminal.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=165826&zoneid=500
(Photos by Bangor Daily News/Bridget Brown)
By Bill Trotter
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
YARMOUTH, Nova Scotia - Maine is not visible from this Canadian town, but tourism officials on both sides of the Gulf of Maine are hoping that, in this case anyway, out of sight does not mean out of mind.
After all, it takes about the same amount of time to get from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, as it does to get from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Maine. And for now, anyway, you don’t need a passport to get there, according to tourism officials.
"There’s a trend that people are looking for multiple-destination vacations," Patricia Eltman, executive director of the Maine Office of Tourism, said Monday. "Our northern neighbors mean a great deal to us. We share a lot of the same [tourism] goals and strategies. We share the same market."
Eltman was among a small contingent of tourism officials from Maine that traveled Monday to Nova Scotia for a three-day trip aimed at promoting the "two-nation vacation" idea by which people travel to both Maine and to nearby Canadian provinces. To get there, they took the only direct, earthbound link between Maine and Nova Scotia — Bay Ferries Ltd.’s Cat ferry, which makes round trips between Yarmouth and Maine. Three days a week it leaves from Bar Harbor and four days a week it leaves from Portland.
The weather Monday morning made for a smooth ride for the ferry, which left Bar Harbor at 9 a.m. Besides Eltman, Maine tourism officials on the trip included Chris Fogg, executive director of the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce; George Driscoll, vice president of marketing and sales for Bay Ferries; Carolann Ouellette and Charlene Williams, both with the Maine Office of Tourism; and Lianon Close, marketing manager for the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Portland.
In Yarmouth, the group and members of the Maine media who accompanied them for the day attended a luncheon along with approximately 20 Canadian tourism officials at Rudder’s Seafood Restaurant and Brewpub, located on the water a few hundred yards north of the ferry terminal.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=165826&zoneid=500
(Photos by Bangor Daily News/Bridget Brown)
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