Dear Friend of Tourism:

We’d like to introduce you to the Vancouver Island Cycle Tourism Alliance and invite you to join our website marketing campaign.  This month, 30,000 copies of our Vancouver Island Cycling Map and Guide will be distributed across the Pacific Northwest, generating more traffic for our website: www.cyclevancouverisland.ca  Traffic on the site is already growing fast.

Cycle tourism is the most exciting new product on the market.  Vancouver Island’s natural assets on are the equal of any destination in the world.  Join industry leaders in our marketing effort and share in $12,000,000 in tourism revenues to our island.

Cycling Tourism Facts:

·         Kettle Valley cycle tourism is reviving small business and little towns across the Okanagan
·         Quebec’s “la Route Verte” Greenways project is radiating out across a province and pumping millions into their economy.
·         The state of Maine pockets $36 million every year from cycle tourism visitors.

·         700 people will visit Victoria in September 2004 for Pro Walk/Pro Bike, North America’s largest cycling and walking conference.

We’re also working to develop cycle tourism around the region.  Successful tourism strategies are built on solid infrastructure like the Galloping Goose trail in Victoria, quiet rural road networks like those threaded through Cowichan’s wine country, and world class mountain bike destinations like Mount Washington and our other ski resorts.

Here’s your chance to get connected to the go-to source for cycle tourism information on Vancouver Island.  Here’s what your business gets on www.cyclevancouverisland.ca

ü       Fast growing web traffic, built by distribution of 30,000 copies of our Map and Guide
ü       Web presence on two-target visitor web sites, linked to dozens of others
ü       On-line access to research and tips on how to make your business bicycle friendly

Get on the Web:  Web advertising is available at the following rates:

Logo, 20 words, and hot link inside
   $99. per year

Logo, 40 word feature, photo and hot link inside
   $149 per year 

Logo, 40 word feature, photo and hot link inside
Plus! Logo/hot link on front page
   $199 per year

Forge the link.  Call John Luton @ 886-4166 or email:  johnluton@shaw.ca