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“Travel” and “Tourism" North in Ontario Canada

Editor/Publisher Note: We are assembling some of the best Ontario travel and tourism experiences north of Toronto. If you want to add your best North of Toronto experience, go to the Ontario Travel North of Toronto blog and write your “best of”.

Evolution of Ontario Travel & Tourism

The Canoe was the first and foremost travel vehicle in Ontario Canada and the lakes and rivers provided natural travel and trading routes. Samuel de Champlain was the first tourist, combining work with pleasure more than 400 years ago. The building of roads for settlement and military purposes allowed Ontario travel and tourism to evolve. The essence of road trips and outdoor recreation on lakes and rivers provides the base for the best tourism experiences today. The major travel routes north are Highway 400 and Highway 11, leading to many back road, side road, canoe and boating routes across the entire Province of Ontario Canada.

Evolution of Ontario Tourism

Tourism goes back to Thomas Cook, the inventor of the traveler’s cheque, or more appropriately the Tourism check. Tourism meant “touring’, the offspring of the grand tour, the ultimate level of maturity afforded to the English noblemen and women, evolved the group tour, and reduced rates and complete tour (tourism) packages. 400ELEVEN has an excellent selection of
tourism packages and getaways.

Tourism in Ontario is all encompassing, as opposed to travel Ontario. Tourism involves touring, mostly by car, especially when visiting northern Ontario, or traveling north of Toronto into cottage country. Although there are many excellent train tours, and motor coach tours, and routes available in Ontario, the car dominates Ontario Travel today and will not change for the foreseeable future.

Thus the notion of Ontario travel from point A to point B, and the notion of Ontario Tourism involving travel from Point A with stops at points A1, A2, A3, A4 before reaching point. B. 400ELEVEN has a number of tour options developed around specific routes such as the Ontario fall color tourism during September and October.

Ontario has developed more than 411 Tourism Options to incorporate into your own personal tourism experiences.

The all encompassing nature of Tourism brings together experiences involving many attractions, accommodation types, dining, site seeing, and leisure time activities including skiing, both water and snow, canoeing, kayaking, viewing road-side historical plaques, strawberry festivals, church suppers and fall colour tours, winery tours, visits to Provincial Parks and more.

Tradition and repetition often determines the experience when traveling north in Ontario.

A classic Tourism picture that has formed in Ontario is around the trek to the private cottage, long a tradition in Ontario. If we add a dining experience we can look at Webbers, on Highway 11, as the first mandatory stop. The experience of fun, old fashioned dining in train cars, the line-up, jovial loud order takers, the smell and smoke wafting across the highway have all added to a long time tradition on the worlds longest highway.

Personally our family has a favorite stop on the way to our cottage-resort near Barry’s Bay---the Kinmount Fish and Chips (on Main Street, beside the Post Office). This little hut is a seasonal outlet, offering fresh cut fries, mouthwatering Halibut, and a picnic area beside the river. Kawartha Dairy Ice Cream follows this with a quick walk across the street.

The entirety of the anticipation during the travel period is what makes a great tourism experience in Ontario. Sometimes it is the simplest of activities that creates the favorite or best experience.

We are assembling some of the best tourism experiences in Ontario north of Toronto. If you want to add your best North of Toronto experience, go to our web blog and write your “best of” to see what our visitors are adding as their experience go to Best of Ontario Tourism.

Additional Editors Favorite Backroad Tourism and Travel Routes Kawarthas and Haliburtion
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