Tourism

By Kelly Louiseize A feasibility study for towns within the Manitoulin Island region and LaCloche Mountain area, which includes Killarney and the North Channel has been released.

Thunder Bay's Candy Mountain Ski Resort is shutting down and its owner is concentrating its snowmaking machines at Loch Lomond Ski Area.

Kirkland Lake's dream of a major tourist project dedicated to Canadian hockey received a $3.5-million boost from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund. Minister of Northern Development and Mines Jim Wilson delivered the cheque in Kirkland Lake Oct. 1.

Thunder Bay's Candy Mountain Ski Resort is shutting down and its owner is concentrating its snowmaking machines at Loch Lomond Ski Area.

By PAULINE CLARK SAULT STE. MARIE"Web-based marketing and partnership marketing in the tourism industry has witnessed growth over the last few years, and can provide the means by which tourism operators can reach the markets they are targeting.

By Frank Scarcello The community of Fort Frances has launched an extensive study to identify tourism opportunities. Re-Inventing Fort Frances is expected to generate some makeover ideas and strategies to make the town more tourist friendly.

By Frank Scarcello Officials with the Town of Fort Frances are hopeful the addition of a condominium along the town's waterfront will act as a drawing card to attract new residents to the area.

Officials with Sioux Narrows and Nestor Falls have plans to capitalize on opportunities for economic development once improvement of harbour facilities in the two northwestern Ontario towns takes place.

By Frank Scarcello A long-lost part of Thunder Bay's marine transportation history, the antique passenger steamship S.S.

By PAULINE CLARK SAULT STE. MARIE "People want to get back to the land; it's a segment of tourism that's the fastest growing," Pat Corbett, owner of Hills Health Ranch told an attentive audience at the Winter Cities Forum here recently.