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[VicHockeyFan]

Has anyone stayed in a local hotel lately?

 

It seems to me an awesome place to advertise other locations is inside hotel rooms where you are already aiming at someone that is travelling, or travels.  And you have their attention for a few hours each day. 

 

It seems to be that a large framed art piece, with this and the Tofino tourism website and a simple message, "only 65 minutes away, flights daily from Victoria" would be a pretty awesome, simple ad for Tofino.  Replace the boring old wall art in the hotel with that.

 

[AllseeingEye]

Ok sure. My point is 500km to drive from one tip to the other and back isn't exactly a one-day excursion. Most visitors have no idea what they're getting themselves into and aren't prepared to make the best of even the south Island until they return.

No question most people not from BC have little to no notion of what is here and the breadth and depth of the geography; my distant English cousins showed up a few years ago with a disclaimer from their travel agent to "give Victoria a skip" unless they were garden aficionados in which case "the Butchart Gardens makes it worth one night overnight; otherwise there isn't much there". Clearly claims by Pam et al to the contrary, much of the rest of the world either is unaware of or could care less about a 90 year old hotel or our "faux pas" (not really the) Parliament Buildings....

 

You'll even see this in the TripAdvisor "BC" forums whenever someone not from BC or Canada says "I have x days" to spend in the north-west and asks which destination(s) are worth seeing (Northwest destinations of note typically being defined on those forums as Vancouver, Seattle, Whistler and Victoria). Almost invariably unless a responder from the island jumps in, tourists posting questions often end with something like "....was thinking of giving Victoria a miss".

[dasmo]

One of the reasons I moved back here was due to meeting fellow travellers who swooned over the fact I was from here. It's how I learned about the Horn Lake Caves and it motivated me to do the Juan de Fuca trail. I don't think the island is off the radar at all.

[LJ]

Cool video.

Looked like quite a bit of Sidney there?

Where was that where those girls went swimming (cliff jumping)?

Sooke potholes?

[LJ]

What would have worked I think is if they had a dashcam video from a float plane coming up Finlayson Arm and then turning in on final from the south so that you would see the whole city come into view and show a little more vibrant harbour than a couple of kayaks and ferry.

[Mike K.]

For sure. They could have added all sorts of great aerial shots but for some reason the video doesn't want to relate the scenes to a bigger region.

[Nparker]

Check out this little gem from 1936: https://www.youtube....h?v=ZKittvT2wdg
The shot of Douglas Street at 1:54 could almost have been taken today!

Edited by Nparker, 16 September 2014 - 05:02 PM.

[Holden West]

I met up with a fellow from Arizona on a bike trip. He posted a photo and said how much he enjoyed cycling along the waterfront all the way up to Gracepoint.

 

[Mike K.]

Luckily that sign has about another three months of life left.

[HB]

I saw a gracepoint Van like bread truck style in Duncan on Monday morn still had all the logos

It was gracepoint newspaper

[Chef-eth]

Loved that video of the old film advertising YVR and YYJ. Thanks!

[VicHockeyFan]

Tourism Victoria CEO Nursey was on CFAX last week talking up their new video, and saying how great it was and how it "went viral'.

 

Dude, it's been watched 40,000 times.  CFL games get 400k to 1M viewers.  Placing the commercial on Calgary TV makes sense.  

 

http://youtu.be/LUXZ1OjFUIM

[Mike K.]

I'm willing to bet a big chunk of those views are Victorians.

[VicHockeyFan]

I'm willing to bet a big chunk of those views are Victorians.

 

I'm guessing most are, it was embedded in the TC article.

[Mike K.]

So much for Tourism Victoria's self congratulatory celebration over that promotional video. This "viral" video as they refer to is hasn't even been seen 50,000 times and by the looks of it other than us locals checking it out nobody off Island seems to care.

 

The video was posted on Youtube on September 10th and has 49,523 views.

[VicHockeyFan]

So much for Tourism Victoria's self congratulatory celebration over that promotional video. This "viral" video as they refer to is hasn't even been seen 50,000 times and by the looks of it other than us locals checking it out nobody off Island seems to care.

 

The video was posted on Youtube on September 10th and has 49,523 views.

 

Our 30 and 60-second videos of the runners in this morning's marathon have been seen thousands of times, and they are lousy.

 

[VicHockeyFan]

We have an important tourist road called Dallas Rd., that for most people has no meaning at all.

 

Do you think anyone would object to a name change if we could find a name that quite a lot of people like?

 

Marine View Drive?  All the way from Shoal Point to Cadboro Bay (Dallas, Beach, Cadboro Bay)?

 

Also, apart from one that Bingo and his son have made I don't think we have one website that lists all our parks and beaches, in the whole area.  It seems to me tourist would like that kind of a guide that puts good information from all our parks, lakes and beaches together.

 

The Saanich parks guide online might be one of the worst.  For many parks there are no photos.

[HB]

US tourists on the tour buses love the name

[lanforod]

Why not name it Beach drive all the way?

[HB]

Why not keep it as it is