GLIN==> Press release: Great Lakes Seaway Trail Taking 12 New Itineraries to International Travel Marketplace May 21-25

PRESS RELEASE: May 18, 2011
Contact: Great Lakes Seaway Trail President and CEO Teresa Mitchell,
315-646-1000 x202
 
Great Lakes Seaway Trail Taking 12 New Itineraries to International Travel
Marketplace May 21-25
 
Great Lakes Seaway Trail, NY and PA ­ Twelve new itineraries for touring the
518-mile Great Lakes Seaway Trail will be distributed to more than 1,500
domestic and international travel buyers from 70 countries at the Travel
Association of America International Pow Wow Marketplace event in San
Francisco May 21-25. The annual event generates more than $3.5 billion in
future U.S. travel expenditures.
 
The Great Lakes Seaway Trail is the 518-mile-long National Scenic Byway that
parallels the freshwater shoreline of the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario,
the Niagara River and Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania. The new Great
Lakes Seaway Trail itineraries are posted online at
www.seawaytrail.com/roadtrips <http://www.seawaytrail.com/roadtrips> .
 
The itineraries developed in partnership with I Love NY Division of Tourism
and the 11 Great Lakes Seaway Trail county tourism promotion agencies (10 in
NYS, 1 in PA) are focused on themed travel opportunities:
·     Birding the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail Capture the Moment: Photography, Art, and
Painting
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail Cultural Heritage and Quilts
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail Just the Two of Us Getaways and Shopping
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail Lighthouses and Shipwrecks
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail Lighthouse-to-Lighthouse Bicycling
·     Quilting Around the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail Seven-Day Scenic Coastal Drive
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail: Take the Blueway
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail War of 1812 in the U.S. and Canada
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail War of 1812 Quilt Challenge
·     Great Lakes Seaway Trail ³Where Can I Take the Kids.²
 
The itineraries vary in length from a one afternoon option to a 9-day
bicycling tour. Some of the itineraries are time-limited; others are
available any time for do-it-yourself drivers; one is an escorted two-nation
group tour to War of 1812 sites in New York, Pennsylvania, Ontario and
Quebec. 
 
³These byway-branded itineraries represent unique Œonly on the Great Lakes
Seaway Trail¹ travel experiences on a premier American national scenic byway
touring destination,² says Great Lakes Seaway Trail President & CEO Teresa
Mitchell. # 
 

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