| Our Travel Story Contest Sponsors
Our Travel Story Contest Sponsors
For our First Travel Story Contest we have put together an impressive
list of prizes. So in return for sending us your stories about how
travel opened your mind, you can win some fabulous prizes, starting
with a an amazing Expedition Cruise on the Amazon River.
| Our Grand Prize Sponsor – An Amazing Expedition
Cruise on the Mighty Amazon River aboard the historic Explorer
Expedition Cruise Ship
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G.A.P
Adventures is Canada’s largest adventure travel
company and a world leader in the adventure industry. G.A.P.
offers unique small group adventures, safaris and expeditions
on all seven continents with a focus on culture, nature and
active travel to more than 40,000 travellers annually. Their
unique and varied styles of award-winning trips are ideal
for people with a sense of adventure - who want to travel
off the beaten path, immerse themselves in the local culture
and environment and experience the real world in a sustainable
manner.
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Our First Prize Sponsor – A One-Week Vacation
in a Fully Equipped One or Two-Bedroom Suite in Europe, Canada,
the USA, Latin America or Australia |
| Textronics
Communications is an established Toronto-based language
and translation services company, owned by Travel and Transitions
publisher Susanne Pacher. Textronics provides professional translation,
interpretation, proofreading, narration, transcription, multi-lingual
desktop publishing, web design and customized language training
services in more than 50 languages and all subject matters.
Based on our multi-lingual, multi-cultural team of experts,
we have also become specialisits on topics related to diversity
and multi-culturalism in the workplace.
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Our Second Prize Sponsors - An Exciting 2-Night/3-Day
Getaway to Toronto, complete with city tours, culinary tastings
and museum tickets
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Bonnevue
Manor B&B is a historic bed and breakfast located
in Roncesvalles Village close to downtown Toronto and overlooking
the shoreline of beautiful Lake Ontario. This historic manor
represents a blend of the commonplace, the unusual and the
nostalgic, and an ironic funkiness. With over 5000 square
feet of living space on three floors, and with 14 rooms the
house epitomizes the grandeur so coveted by the successful
Torontonians of the late eighteen hundreds and is a perfect
starting point for your urban explorations.
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The Royal
Ontario Museum is a celebrated downtown Toronto attraction
and Canada's largest museum of world cultures and natural
history. Now undergoing a major expansion, with a bold new
addition set to open in late 2006, the ROM presents fascinating
galleries of art, archaeology and natural science, with a
strong Canadian focus. From Ancient Egyptian mummies and Medieval
European armour, to the biodiversity of Canada’s hardwood
forests, there’s something new to discover around every
corner.
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Bruce
Bell is a well known Toronto historian, actor, playwright
and tour leader, and his well-known St. Lawrence Market tours
introduce visitors to Toronto’s colourful history, to
some of the city's significant architectural heritage and
the culinary diversity provided by the merchants in the market.
His trademark is a combination of indepth historic knowledge
with a humorous twist on story-telling that will provide an
entertaining learning experience of a different kind.
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Toronto
Hippo Tours is Toronto’s amphibian bus tour company
that allows you to see Toronto from both land and water. Their
downtown Toronto tour takes you past some of the city's major
landmarks such as the Hockey Hall of Fame, Hummingbird Centre,
Air Canada Centre, Molson Amphitheatre, IMAX, Eaton Centre,
Osgoode Hall, Old and New City Hall, Toronto's waterfront
and Ontario Place. Your 90-minute "urban safari"
is uninterrupted and is fully narrated by our tour escort,
to provide you with some of the history of Toronto and our
historical landmarks. |
Our Third Prize Sponsor - A C$150 Merchandise Gift
Certificate for Your Outdoor and Travel Gear |
| Mountain
Equipment Coop was conceived in 1971 within the cozy confines
of a storm-battered tent.While enduring a savage mountain storm,
a small group of students agreed they needed a place to buy
gear not carried by conventional retailers – avalanche
transceivers, ice axes, rope… the works. Today, MEC is
Canada’s largest supplier of quality outdoor equipment.
With more than two million members in 192 countries, MEC is
a vibrant retail co-operative. MEC has stores across Canada,
as well as a comprehensive web store and phone/mail order service.
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Our Honourable Mentions Sponsors – 10 Magazine
Prize Packs
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Outpost
Magazine: Since its debut in March 1996, Outpost has defied
the conventions that typify other travel magazines - it steers
away from the cozy and coddled and takes a more adventurous
and realistic look at the world and how people travel through
it. Every issue of Outpost gives you the good, the bad and the
ugly about travel, all told in an honest, sometimes irreverent
voice.
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Verge
is Canada’s magazine for people who travel with purpose.
Each issue takes you around the world with people who are doing
something different and making a difference doing it. This is
Canada’s resource for those wanting to volunteer, work,
study or adventure overseas.
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Plenty
is a magazine for hip, savvy environmentally conscious
consumers. PLENTY readers know that we live in a world of
finite resources, that the planet is a fragile system in delicate
balance, and that there are limits to how much we can extract
from our surroundings without doing irreparable harm. PLENTY
believes that the technologies are in place and the will exists
to make a transition from a world of potential scarcity to
a world of plenty.
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