Banff Lake Louise News

Banff's heritage is alive and well as was apparent last week at a reception hosted by Banff Heritage Tourism and the Banff Heritage Corporation.

Well over 200 people from the community attended the party at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, providing laughter and plenty of smiling faces while the awards were being presented.

Here is Bill Campbell with Resort TV starting the evening off with some "Back to the Future" references... if you haven't seen the movie, you should... you'll understand!

The awards recognized seven organizations and individuals who brought heritage values into their business practices and personal endeavours.

Dave Moberg was animated after receiving a Life Time Achievement award for his dedication and enthusiasm in sharing the majestic past at The Fairmont Banff Springs... ask him about Marlyn Monroe!

While Bruce Bembridge with The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise was recognized by MPHIA as the Heritage Interpreter of the year.

Interested in learning more about Heritage Tourism in Banff National Park... check it out... they've got programs for new staff in town and are always looking to create partnerships.

Travelers are talking about us!

I feel proud to be a part of a destination which was rated #1 for Canadian destinations by TripAdvisor travellers! Not only did Banff land at the top of the list in the #1 spot but Lake Louise was close behind at #3.

If that isn’t exciting enough Banff went on to be voted 9th out of the top 100 destinations in the World while Lake Louise was 19th!

From what I see the winning destinations are awarded their status through traveler ratings found throughout the tripadvisor.com website. You can see the full list at tripadvisor.com/TCDestinations

Last year in December TripAdvisor put out a list for the top 10 Ski Getaways and Banff placed #1 on that list as well. See the blog post from December 2007 titled Banff is tripadvisor's top ski destination for full details.

I’d like to congratulate the team here at Banff Lake Louise Tourism and all of our members and partners for creating such a memorable experience for visitors, so memorable that they are going home and writing about their trip on TripAdvisor.com!