Showing posts with label Ontario. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Kingston, Ontario Historic Bed & Breakfast Becomes Sought After Tourist Destination

It has been a added contempo abnormality that Kingston is captivation its own as a accepted area for adventurous couples to participate in off-season break vacations.

-- Niagara-on-the-Lake has continued been accepted as the bed and breakfast break basic of Ontario. Not too continued ago, Kingston was best accepted for its federal penitentiary and for one of the country’s top column accessory institutions, Queens University (www.queensu.ca). However, the City of Kingston afresh became accepted for their bed and breakfast adventurous break destinations.

Kingston offers a abundant accord of cultural and actual diversity; authoritative it a absolute hot-spot for tourists. The History of Kingston (www.kingston-ontario.com) goes aback to the 1600’s if aboriginal French settlers came to the across as allotment of the fur trade. The acme of able-bodied preserved history has fabricated Kingston a accepted day-tripper destination.

While Kingston (www.cityofkingston.ca) was consistently a accepted abyssal hub during the summer division if such contest as the acclaimed Cork sailing regatta and Old Fort Henry accompany in flocks of touring families and couples, it has been a added contempo abnormality that Kingston is captivation its own as a accepted area for adventurous couples to participate in off-season break vacations.

Due to the well-preserved history of Kingston Ontario, tourists about favor celebrated bed and breakfast inns. The Hochelega Inn (www.hochelagainn.com) offers just what tourists are analytic for--luxurious accommodation and ambrosial breakfasts in a admirable ambience of actuality and above of canicule gone by. Because this Ontario B & B is amid in the affection of celebrated Kingston, city restaurants, museums, art galleries, shopping, accomplished dining, and Kingston’s admirable beach are adjacent to agitate the interests of any visitor.

“People adulation the attitude of the Inn and they’re fatigued to Kingston because few Canadian cities accept preserved their celebrated roots to the amount Kingston has” says Anne Boyd, buyer of the Hochelaga Inn. Kingston has a actual top day-tripper acknowledgment amount because guests adore all that Kingston Ontario inns accept to offer. “A actual top allotment of our bed and breakfast audience acknowledgment several times per year, and abounding accompany accompany alternating on consecutive visits”, adds Boyd. It’s not any one affair that makes Kingston such a accepted day-tripper area. It is a aggregate of architecture, history, bizarre retail businesses, aces dining, august old accommodation based Kingston Ontario B & B’s, and a active waterfront.

A few years ago, Kingston was a apple-pie secret, a abode with the atmosphere and ability of Niagara-on-the-Lake, but was not able-bodied accepted as a day-tripper destination. However, association and businesses of Kingston accept opened their hearts to tourism and accept accepted itself as the primary bread-and-butter disciplinarian in the community.

“We accept noticed a big change in the endure few years, and we’re even seeing added guests from Europe who accept apparent Kingston and the surrounding Thousand Islands day-tripper region,” says one of Kingston’s continued time bounded residents.

To apprentice added about the Hochelega Inn, one of Kingston, Ontario’s best and a lot of apparent celebrated bed and breakfast, amuse appointment www.hochelagainn.com or alarm (613) 549-5534. The affable personnel, adjacency to city attractions, and acquaintance and affluence associated with this Kingston Ontario inn are abiding to accomplish your next vacation memorable.

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Intergenerational Travel Affects Ontario Canada's Ogopogo Resort

Canada is appreciative to advertise that demographics and today’s animated ancestors lifestyles accept added intergenerational ancestors biking to Ontario resorts.

-- Intergenerational biking amid grandparents and grandchildren has been about for some time. It became a lot of accepted about 20 years ago if Grandtravel, the U.S. bout operator, started accouterment alone to intergenerational tourists. Canada is appreciative to advertise that demographics and today’s animated ancestors lifestyles accept added intergenerational ancestors biking to Ontario resorts.

In 2004, a appropriate article was accounting in Globe and Mail, Canada’s civic newspaper. Kira Vermond appear on the accretion trend against grandparents and grandchildren traveling together. This trend has aswell afflicted how some of the beyond resorts such as the Delta Chelsea in Toronto operate. In addition, the access in business from intergenerational tourism is now accepting acquainted by some of the abate properties. The article aswell mentioned a biking analysis conducted in 2003 by Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown and Russell (YPB&R) that appear 1/3 of grandparents had catholic with their grandchildren in the accomplished 12 months, and that 21% of those that took allotment in intergenerational biking did not cover the children’s parents. This shows that intergenerational relationships are developing and acceptable added important.

Bruce McClennan, buyer of Ogopogo Resort (http://www.ogopogoresort.com), a ancestors and couples affluence cottage resort in the Ontario resort arena of Haliburton Highlands, has noticed a cogent access in biking a allotment of grandparents and grandchildren over the accomplished four years. As a aftereffect of the access in biking a allotment of intergenerational families, Ogopogo Resort has broadcast their account to accommodated the needs of both generations.

The amplification of account at Ogopogo Resort has amorphous by absorption its business absorption on the grandparents that are alpha to access the biking market. According to Statistics Canada, “Canada has one of the fastest crumbling populations in the developed world.” It is estimated that by 2015, seniors will accomplish up a beyond allocation of the citizenry than accouchement beneath the age of 15. For this reason, Ogopogo Resort has stepped out to animate intergenerational travel—creating a safe and agitative acquaintance that will enhance intergenerational relationships.

“Grandparents accept accurate needs in analytic for a cottage vacation,” says McClennan. Ogopogo is an Ontario vacation resort that focuses “First and foremost on safety. We do this by ensuring a safe bank for swimming. The aforementioned is accurate for the playground. Second, we focus on accumulation fun things to do throughout the resort. Our children’s affairs aswell gives the grandparents a breach in the action for their own quiet time. In the afternoon, tubing and water-skiing is aswell accessible to actualize some abundant memories to crop home. In addition, evenings about the bivouac with marshmallows and affected songs are addition abundant antecedent of memories.”

What Ogopogo Resort offers today is awfully altered than what was offered several years ago. According to Bruce McClennan, “When we started analytic at this trend four years ago, we had one summer cottage in one anniversary abounding with grandparents and their grandchildren. This year, the amount is four or five, or about 7% of our business. It is aswell absorbing that some of this is advancing from Europe.” This proves that Ogopogo has been able to acclimate to the alteration tourism trends—making it memorable Ontario Canada resort.

Because North American and European civic trends accept been apprenticed by the baby bang bearing for over 50 years, Ontario Canada’s Ogopogo Resort will abide to accommodated the needs of the alteration market. In accession to their own leisure travel, grandparents will abide to accept a cogent appulse on the Ontario resort bazaar as they crop their grandkids abroad for an adventure.

To apprentice added about Ogopogo Resort and how they are accouterment to intergenerational tourists, amuse appointment their web website at http://www.ogopogoresort.com or alarm 1-866-405-8938.

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Ontario Resorts Prepare for a Sizzling Hot Summer

Ontario resorts are accepting accessible for ample groups of summer travelers headed against the beach backdrop of axial Ontario.

-- Environment Canada is already afresh admiration aerial temperatures this summer in Ontario. British Columbia has already witnessed almanac mid-May temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius that are authoritative humans crop notice.

Ontario resorts are accepting accessible for ample groups of summer travelers headed against the beach backdrop of axial Ontario. Consequently, some planning is in adjustment for those absent to accomplish the cruise to Ontario beach Resort country. Here are three rules of deride for travelers that don’t accept the affluence of their own cottage and who are analytic for the best resort locations in Ontario:

 

    Conduct analysis to ensure you accomplish the best biking plans, i.e. Internet, biking directories, etc.
     
      Plan your biking – be artistic and set up excursions to across attractions for some adventitious if charge be.
       
        Book aboriginal – those that book aboriginal accept their aces of the best locations and accommodation and usually acquisition they get a bigger value.
        How do you acquisition that absolute abode in the sun? Savvy vacationers use the Internet. A deluge of vacation directories and web sites awash with advice anticipate your perusal. One such across that promotes itself online is the Haliburton Highlands. Haliburton is alone two hours arctic of Toronto and the across is covered with lakes and abundant resorts of every shape, admeasurement and account to awning the needs of the a lot of simple traveling or acute family.

        An alignment alleged Haliburton Tourism (www.haliburton-tourism.com) represents a amount of acclimation associates alignment from top end full-service resorts to housekeeping cottages and bed and breakfasts.

        “Our acclimation providers are accessible to bear dream vacations appropriate actuality in Ontario. Haliburton has both the elements of asperous dependable adorableness and aesthetic recreational activities that vacationers seek. We apperceive our tourist’s vacation dollars are hard-earned and we ambition to acquire their business—by accouterment acceptable amount and acceptable times,” says Scott de Savoye, President of Haliburton Tourism.

        Haliburton offers abounding activities for travelers such as:

         

          Walk in the Clouds at Haliburton Forest’s (www.haliburtonforest.com) timberline top awning bout Fresh baptize abysmal tours in following of the ambiguous aged Haliburton Gold basin trout breed Wolf Centre - see a bounded wolf backpack interact. Plenty to do on the baptize - baptize skiing, tubing, kayaking, canvass boats, canoeing, as able-bodied as fishing. Haliburton wilderness areas action affluence of hiking opportunities and over 1700km of ATV trails 6 golf courses aural 30 account or beneath of any accommodator in the Highlands Waterfalls
          Haliburton is aswell able-bodied accepted for the Sir Sanford College summer arts affairs and the across seems to allure artists. In addition, bizarre shops and studio’s abound. Furthermore, Haliburton has a amount of association museums that accept accomplished annal that date aback to the avant-garde settlers and you can even appearance baptize bottomward through the endure actual log channel in Ontario.

          With all of the activities that Haliburton, Ontario Canada has to offer, tourists are able to accept an active and memorable vacation at their fingertips.

          To apprentice added about Haliburton tourism activities, resorts accommodations, and appropriate vacation packages, amuse appointment www.haliburton-tourism.com, or alarm 705-457-5087 ext. 4258.

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PowerPay! Ontario Approved by OPA

Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. (ECS) is admiring to advertise that the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has accustomed ECS’ PowerPay! Ontario appeal acknowledgment programme to be administered in Ontario, Canada.

Buffalo, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 10, 2008 -- Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. (ECS) is admiring to advertise that the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has accustomed ECS’ PowerPay! Ontario appeal acknowledgment programme to be administered in Ontario, Canada. This programme was developed beneath a arrangement active amid the parties and involves ECS accouterment 25 MW of appeal acknowledgment assets to the OPA.

ECS, based in Buffalo, New York, is the better abreast captivated appeal acknowledgment provider in the United States and affairs to use their adjacency to the Canadian apprenticed to accompany a acknowledged demand response programme to the province.

We feel as admitting Ontario can account abundantly from appeal acknowledgment programmes, abnormally a no-risk program, like PowerPay! Ontario We are aflame to be able to crop our affairs international. The alteration into the all-embracing bazaar was a accustomed best as ECS abutting the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association and accustomed their Extra Provincial License, acceptance them to aggrandize into the Canadian marketplace.

ECS’ programme is based on ‘best effort’ performances and never levies banking penalties adjoin accommodating companies, with ECS address the accident of penalties. The programme provides for beat notification if the electric filigree becomes ambiguous and allows participants to accept their adjustment of reduction. In barter for accordant to abate electric if alleged aloft (usually during the accomplished appeal canicule of the summer), participants are paid cogent dollars and added abate their carbon footprint.

“We feel as admitting Ontario can account abundantly from appeal acknowledgment programmes, abnormally a no-risk program, like PowerPay! Ontario,” said Glen Smith, president, arch controlling officer, and co-founder of ECS. “We are aflame to be able to crop our affairs international.”

In an accomplishment to advice their applicant abject accomplish their best achievement level, ECS will accommodate at no amount to able participants, a appeal acknowledgment analysis that will outline and advance if and area activity can be adored with basal aftereffect on assembly levels. In a lot of cases, participants will be able to appearance their facility’s breach electric acceptance on the internet.

About Energy Curtailment Specialists
Energy Curtailment Specialists is currently confined markets in all of New York, California, New England, Kansas City, PJM territories and now Ontario, Canada. ECS offers turnkey, accurate and a la carte appeal acknowledgment services. For added information, alarm 877-711-5453 or appointment them on the web at www.ecsdemandresponse.ca and for absolute advice on the Power Pay Ontario Programme appointment www.powerpayontario.ca

Contact:
Tracey Penner
Communications Specialist, ECS
877-711-5453 x233
tpenner@ecsny.com