With the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in full swing, Exposure Travel is ready to help all visitors of British Columbia to plan their ultimate adventure tour. Inspiring commercials like this one here are showing the world why BC is the perfect destination for your next family holiday!

Effective corporate retreats provide an essential component of business productivity and our planning team provides an invaluable meeting management service. We focus on delivering an inspiring meeting experience that balances message with innovative and memorable team-building activities in British Columbia.

Here is a recent video from a fantastic company we worked with:

One important aspect of Canada’s global competitiveness as a tourism destination is the price of Canadian travel products relative to those of its key international competitors’ products. The competitive price index tracks product pricing trends in key markets and monitors Canada’s relative price competitiveness. The competitive price index is calculated based on a potential traveller’s expected spending on airfares, hotels, meals, and other costs for travel to Canada, compared with the costs for travelling to competing destinations.

In a recent report prepared for the Canadian Tourism Commission, it is predicted that Canada’s price competitiveness is expected to improve for the inbound travel markets of France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, China and Australia during the first quarter of 2010, compared with the same quarter of 2009. The improvement is largely because of significant year-over-year reductions in average airfares to Canada and great news for inbound tour operators in Canada.

For full details, please see the Conference Board of Canada’s full report on the short-term competitive outlook for the first quarter of 2010.

Now in High Definition the footage you have all been waiting for! Yet another inspired trip with Nick Gudewill at the helm of an Exposure Travel specialty – fishing in the best, most top secret locations in BC!

No matter what your level of expertise, doesn’t this trip look fun? Even if you’re not a pro, with Exposure Travel’s decked out, top of the line gear, you’ll sure feel like one!

Check out the monster salmon, the dipping sea lions and you may want to replay that incredible shot of the enormous bald eagle swooping down and catching a salmon right out of the waves! The scenery is breathtaking, highlighting the unspoiled natural beauty of British Columbia’s central coast. It is truly the kind of place that you have to see with your own eyes to believe, where it is just as gorgeous with the sun out as when the fog drops down to the water. And while the fishing is unparalleled, there is much more to do than reel in giant salmon. This “top secret” location is ideal for diving, kayaking and even just cruising while sipping on world class spirits and dining on local gourmet cuisine. The temperate climate of coastal BC means that you can enjoy this ecological Eden all year round! Whether fishing with friends or relaxing with family, Exposure Travel guarantees that your trip will be something you cherish forever, and will keep you coming back for more!

Beating out Buenos Aires and Quebec City for the top place to visit in Conde Nast’s annual “best of the Americas” contest is no small feat! Both are beautiful, culturally rich places with much to offer. However it is hard to beat out Vancouver for many reasons listed here. Here at Exposure Travel, we’ve been agreeing all along with the many rankings that put us at the top, and we’d bet that most people doing these surveys have only seen the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to beautiful, British Columbia. For instance, I doubt that most visitors to BC have had the pleasure of experiencing premiere outdoor travel like this before! Or maybe you’ve always wondered but never thought something like this was possible! Well let me tell you, these trips are possible, they are amazing, and they are just a short distance from Vancouver. Come for the city, stay for everything else! And by everything else we mean the mountains, the lakes, the islands, all of which we’d be so very happy to guide you through. From one of a kind family vacations or “eco-safaris” as we like to call them to scenic cruises onboard a luxury yacht around Vancouver’s Coal Harbour, Exposure Travel can do it all. Come experience all that Vancouver and British Columbia has to offer! Conde Nast has, so why don’t you?

As I sit here, looking outside at the beautiful autumn sunshine I find myself thinking about the nature of communication in this modern day, immediate gratification era we find ourselves in. Blogging, once a sort of online personal-to-public diary has become a useful sales tool. No longer only for the tech savvy, blogs can be made and can appeal to just about anyone. In today’s online environment it is useful to use phrases carefully and with direction to target possible sales. For instance, when looking for the best BC travel guides, simply click on the highlighted text and you’ll be taken just where you need to go. When speaking of the Canadian tour operator Exposure Travel you’ll get to our index where you can take a look at some outdoor adventures in BC, simple as that! Having a blog on something like an adventure travel website allows viewers to learn about and flip through the website with little effort and a few simple key words. Now that you’ve read through this and followed the links, I’m sure you will be wanting to contact us immediately and book an inspired adventure vacation in BC!

Looking for an unforgettable excursion in the coming months? Want to support the Canadian Tourism Industry while having the time of your life in the natural splendour of the great outdoors? Well look no further than www.localsknow.ca. This Canadian Tourism Commission sponsored website offers the best in local adventure travel with specially reduced prices. Each trip has been hand-picked and added to the website only if it is markedly decreased in cost and offers a one of a kind experience in Canadian travel. Exposure Travel made the grade, which is not surprising to anyone who has had the joy of experiencing one of our custom, tailored, exclusive and eye opening adventures. Take a look at Locals Know.ca and see for yourself!

As I alluded to last week, we have some truly unique vacations planned for all you luxury travellers out there who are looking to experience BC like locals do… well, like locals who like luxury! Exposure Travel is offering a delightful smattering of winter holiday options, which will be tailored to fit your timeline varying from trips lasting 3-4 days to a full week, or longer should you like! Our holiday packages are complete with expert guides, gourmet chefs, onsite entertainment – all the bells and whistles that you deserve to make your winter getaway everything you could hope for and more! We are not just another tour operator, we take you places that the general public can’t access and leave you with memories of the trip of your lifetime!

Maybe you are coming to BC for the 2010 Winter Olympics and want to see more of why BC is often referred to as one of the most beautiful places on earth. Maybe you are a local who wants to escape the Olympic madness for a little bit and explore your own backyard in style? The trips we have planned will truly knock your socks off and give you a glimpse into the good life that we are so fortunate to enjoy in BC. Imagine watching the waves crash on the dock of your very own private, sprawling oceanfront estate, while you enjoy a “Sundowner” cocktail and freshly caught Dungeness crab by a roaring fire!

Perhaps you fancy seeing BC via your own 110 foot refurbished luxury yacht where you’ll be able to cruise around through the gorgeous Gulf Islands while dining like royalty and waking up to playful seals dipping in and out of the surf! Feeling adventurous? How about settling into your personal BC ranch, a wintry haven in the rolling hills of the Okanagan?

Whether you want to complete your BC Olympic experience by seeing more than Vancouver and Whistler (which are both beautiful and exciting in their own rights!) or get out of town for some well deserved rest and relaxation, let Exposure Travel take you where other Canadian Tour Operators simply can’t! There is more to life in BC than watching hockey and going curling! Take yourself and your loved ones on a winter escapade that you won’t soon forget!

Not that there is any shortage of great things about traveling in BC with Exposure Travel, but one of the biggest perks has to be the incredibly fascinating people you get to meet on your journey. To meet other adventure seeking enthusiasts, particularly in some of the world’s most beautiful and unspoiled destinations enriches the experience immeasurably. Nick had the great pleasure of meeting Gaelin and her family who are originally from New York while at Langara Fishing Lodge in the exquisitely beautiful Queen Charlotte Islands.

Gaelin Rosenwaks is a New York based photographer, explorer and marine scientist who started Global Ocean Exploration, www.globaloceanexploration.com, an organization created out of Gaelin’s desire to introduce remote oceanic ecosytems to the pulic through state of the art, cutting edge research expedititions via classroom tutorials and lectures using web-based technology, photography and film. Gaelin’s photography reflects her own sensitivity as an oceanographer and conservation biologist  to the remote regions she photographs, enriching the depth of her work and demonstrating a real empathy to her environment.

Once a year Gaelin’s family takes a week of holidays and come fishing to one of their most cherished destinations: beautiful British Columbia. In the attached video you can see Gaelin, her brother and her mum and dad reel in and release a 55lb, 46lb and 42lb salmon. Their determination to see and explore the oceans while helping to maintain those underwater leviathans in the fish stocks is admirable and families like Gaelin’s really demonstrate their respect and commitment to the health of the oceans. Exposure Travel is an advocate for protecting our oceans and the fish and creatures who inhabit them. Booking a trip with Exposure is not only an incredible adventure for one and all but a learning experience about the world we live in!

It is only August but already the air has changed. The nights are cooler, the mornings start later and the evening creeps up on you and before you know it, it is dark by 8pm! Far from this being a negative, Fall just happens to be one of the best times to travel in BC. Horseback riding in the interior offers a range of colours and sights you can only find here in BC and for a robust and fulfilling experience, taking a trail ride with a professional guide will show you those tucked away natural wonders that only locals know of. If you’d rather see the sights while getting work out, why not book a mountain biking extravaganza with us, here at Exposure Travel? Our professional mountain biking guides will set you at ease before you embark on a heart stopping, adrenaline pumping joyride through heavily forested trails and mountainous paths that will test your reflexes and give you a natural high, right up in the prettiest parts of BC.

Is diving your thing? Diving in the calm, vast waters of the Pacific Ocean will let you see the world beneath the waves and let you frolic with Pacific White Nosed dolphins and tease the many seals that provide under and above the water theatrics with their barking calls and attention seeking acrobatics!

And if all of this sounds a bit too strenuous for you and yours, why not book a luxury trip on any one of Exposure Travel’s many lavish and exclusive yachts and dine on the gleaming deck with your own private chef whipping up whatever delectable delights your palate craves?

As the summer is ending, now is the perfect time to get started on planning your next celebration of life and adventure in this great world of ours! There is no better way to nip those end-of-summer blues than by lettings us take you and your loved ones on an outdoor Autumn adventure that will change your life!