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Is there a difference between
the word “Travel” and the word “Tourism, in the eyes
of travelers and tourists in Canada, and Ontario?
Editor Note: 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 best tourism experience
go to Best of Ontario Tourism.
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.
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Additional Editors Favorite Backroad Tourism and Travel
Routes Kawarthas and Haliburtion
Tourism and Travel Routes
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