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Route 66 a Grand American adventure
GRAND American Adventures is giving clients the chance to be TV stars on a one-off Route 66 tour which will be filmed for the PBS channel in America. The Route 66 – Behind the
Scenes tour will take in the best of the Mother Road and offer travellers the chance to take part in the filming of a series highlighting the road’s history and unique people. Clients will be given a copy of the programmes. Running from May 17-31, and
priced from £2,359pp, it will cross eight American states and make a small detour for the Grand Canyon. Travellers will be accompanied
by Jim Conkle, a leading Route 66 authority, and Steve Brown, PBS host, as well as the documentary film crew and a Grand American Adventures tour leader. The tour will feature excursions, attractions, local personalities, historians, artists, and live music.
Highlights will include attending a Route 66 outdoor festival and an End of the Road Party at Rusty’s Surf Ranch in Santa Monica
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IN BRIEF Seattle’s cruising: Port of Seattle
cruise terminal welcomed 179 cruise ships and 823,780 passengers last year and the port anticipates a 7.2% increase of visiting ships in 2015. With the arrival of Holland America’s Statendam every other Monday, seven cruise lines will visit, bringing with them an estimated 895,055 passengers.
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Ramsey’s new Vegas LINQ: Gordon
Ramsay will open his fourth Las Vegas venue, Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips, at The LINQ Promenade this spring. Developed by Caesars Entertainment The LINQ is an open-air retail, dining and entertainment
district
centre of the Las Vegas Strip.
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in the Panama Beach news goes quarterly:
Panama City Beach, Florida, is to produce its visitors guide quarterly in 2015. Previously the publication, which consists of 90-plus pages, was published annually. It is designed to keep operators and agents up to date with all the destination’s news and events
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AMERICA As you Like It has expanded its Alaska product for 2015 to include small group escorted tours to Alaska as well as RV rentals.
Big and breathtakingly beautiful, there are few places in the world that offer the untamed wilderness, wildlife and
scenic
mountainous grandeur of Alaska, the so-called ‘49th state’.
The operator’s escorted tours begin and end in Anchorage and range from 10 to 19 nights in duration. Available experiences include a float plane trip deep into the wilderness to
search for bears, a wildlife cruise around
Resurrection Bay, Denali
National Park bus tours, sea kayaking and glacier visits. The 10-day escorted tour,
‘Alaskan Highlights’ featuring
Anchorage,
Seward, Kenai Fjords National Park, Valdez, Wrangell-St Elias National Park, Alaska Range and Denali National Park, starts from £2879, including flights, accommodation, all transport and the services of a tour leader.
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Kansas and Oklahoma expect bumper year
TOUR operators are rushing in to feature the Midwest
states of
Kansas and Oklahoma, two of the US’s emerging
destinations. Joining the self-drive itineraries offered by America As You Like It and North America Travel Service (NATS) are new Kansas/ Oklahoma fly-drives from Complete North America and W&O Travel. Meanwhile,
Ranch Rider Holidays’ ‘must see’
ranch specialist new
brochure features working ranches in both states, and RV operator Cruise America has expanded its suggested Route 66 itinerary – which appears in its ‘tourbook’ – to include three nights in the Heartland
States, in
Tulsa,
Oklahoma City and Elk City. Matt Bates, of KSOK’s UK office, said: “Experienced leisure travellers to the US looking for new American experiences are considering Kansas and Oklahoma. Western and Native
American
history and culture are brought to life along our myriad historic and scenic trails, and a welcome as big as the prairies awaits.” Last year Verruckt!, the world’s tallest water slide, opened in the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City. It features a three-person raft that slides down a jaw-dropping 168 ft structure. Riders are then blasted back up a second hill and sent down one final 50-foot drop.
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