Family and tourism guy. Run a Certified B Corp company, @FrontiersNorth, hosting guests in Canada's North and trying to do so in a sustainable manner.
Joined September 2008
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John Gunter retweeted
13 Feb 2024
Look up there!
How cool is this This real-time video of the northern lights?
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John Gunter retweeted
24 Oct 2023
If you've ever dreamt of witnessing the awe-inspiring Northern Lights, you won't want to miss out on an incredible opportunity waiting for you in Churchill, Manitoba this winter!
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19 Jul 2023
From Minni to Winni (Minneapolis to Winnipeg).
17 Jul 2023
Outside of better service, are there any new routes or expansions you'd like to see within VIA's system?
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28 Feb 2023
Last night our guests near Churchill dining beneath the northern lights witnessed a meteor exploding (??) nearby.
This video was captured ~30km away from our guests; I understand this ‘event’ happened pretty much overhead. Wild. @exploreorg @PolarBears @FrontiersNorth
27 Feb 2023
WOW! Just caught this amazing #Meteor on the Churchill, #Manitoba #AuroraBorealis cam! Wow wow wow!! 😍💚 #NorthernLights #SpaceWeather
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28 Feb 2023
Our team knew this, whatever it was, was not normal and expressed their excitement.
Our guests (most of whom had never experienced aurora) thought it was just part of the northern lights show, haha.
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18 Feb 2023
Tonight our second EV Tundra Buggy, Buggy 10, is being put into active duty helping host one of our groups in Churchill to experience aurora borealis (i.e. northern lights).
Here’s B10 silently laying a patch of rubber. The torque in these EVs is next level. Volume up 🔊
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19 Feb 2023
Last night -54º celsius, two EV Tundra Buggies running like a charm, outperforming diesel machines *by a tundra mile*
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John Gunter retweeted
10 Nov 2022
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25 Oct 2022
Great @Skift article about demand for cold weather tourism in Scandinavian 🇪🇺, mirroring @FrontiersNorth experience in the 🇨🇦 subarctic. Our 2022 combined sales for winter northern lights, summer beluga whale, & autumn polar bear trips at 106% of 2019.📈
skift.com/2022/10/25/the-arc…
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17 Oct 2022
Recently returning from 🇺🇸 in the Nexus line, presented my Nexus card, was unceremoniously escorted to the back of general security clearance line (which was fine). I asked if I was doing it wrong. No response. I guess this is my answer 👇🏻
cp24.com/news/business-counc…
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3 Oct 2022
FWIW all along I’ve been asking our sales team if ArriveCAN has been cited as an issue for our multi-day, guided group tour guests & prospective guests. The answer is NO. It may have been an issue for other travellers & companies, but it wasn’t for us.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada…
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3 Oct 2022
That being said, my push-back to the government re: ArriveCAN is that travellers don’t want to download the 🇨🇦 app, 🇪🇺 app, 🇺🇸 app, etc. and that we need a globally interoperable customs/health verification app.
15 Sep 2022
Super cool.
15 Sep 2022
We are excited to officially share our new logo!
The tree in our new logo is intended to resemble a white spruce krummholz formation (i.e. a flag tree) commonly found along drier coastal areas near Churchill.
Learn more about our new logo here:
➡️hubs.ly/Q01mrsj00
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31 Jul 2022
Beluga Whale researcher Valeria Vergara, representing @Raincoast, is in Churchill helping us launch a new entry into our Conservation Journey® franchise of trips - Conservation Journey: Beluga Whales. Thank you Valeria and Raincoast Foundation!
31 Jul 2022
Great being back in #Churchill! Gave a talk about #belugas, communication, the importance of sound to cetaceans, and our work @Raincoast to understand and mitigate underwater noise impacts on cetaceans. The good news: there are tangible solutions! @FrontiersNorth
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24 Jun 2022
.@VIA_Rail operates routes between Vancouver-Seattle, Toronto-NYC & Montréal-NYC.
Why not operate a Winnipeg-Minneapolis line to bolster short-haul cross border tourism?
This is not a decades long infrastructure project. This can be done quickly.
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23 Jun 2022
#Alberta, #Saskatchewan & #Manitoba offer unique outdoor, indigenous, and culinary tourism opportunities for visitors at home and abroad. I talked with partners across the prairies on improving tourism destinations for all seasons and adding new air routes & travel corridors.
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14 Jun 2022
This reminds me of a Pearl Jam concert in Winnipeg (Sep-2005, natch) the guy at the urinal beside me said he saw Neil Young at the airport earlier that day.
Spoiler alert: Uncle Neil did not make an appearance on stage that evening.
14 Jun 2022
FWIW Barry Trotz allegedly told 2 guys in a gas station in Swift Current he’s going to Winnipeg to coach the Jets. #GoJetsGo #OnlyInSask #wherelifemakessense
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14 Jun 2022
The Undisputed Heavy Weight Champion of the (Winnipeg PR) World for today is Little Brown Jug Brewing. 🏆🏆🏆
@LBJBrewing.
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14 Jun 2022
Google reports "About 197 results".
I'm not smart enough to assign an equivalent monetary value to all this, but I am sure it is substantially higher than LBJ's annual marketing budget.
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16 Mar 2022
Looking forward to getting together IRL with friends and colleagues at IMPACT in Victoria, BC!
16 Mar 2022
NEW SPEAKER! We’re excited to announce @JohnGunter as an IMPACT 2022 speaker. John is the President & CEO of @FrontiersNorth. Read more: tourismvictoria.com/impact-s…
Register: eventsforce.net/dgv/frontend…
#impactnational #sustainabletourism #sustainability
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