Eco-touring Outdoor School
Travellers from around the world visit Squamish for the Monument Cedar Tour
November 5, 2009
In partnership with Landsea Tours, our Outdoor School hosted over 2,800 international eco-tourists from April to October of this year. Visitors gained a greater appreciation of nature conservation, while enjoying 60-minute guided eco-walks through the school’s 1000 year old cedars and temperate rainforest. Over $21,000 in tour fees was earned in support of the NVOS Alumni Society's Outdoor School for Kids Bursary Fund. The Monument Cedar Tour was the brainchild of Outdoor School Principal Victor Elderton and Tor van der Leij, a resident graduate student from the Netherlands. Since its inception in 1996, the Monument Cedar Tour has attracted over 23,000 visitors worldwide to the Outdoor School Salmon Forest.
The ground breaking for the sustainably-designed North Shore Credit Union Environmental Learning Centre quickly approaches. This leading-edge facility, an attraction in itself, will become the starting point for future nature tours, helping to bolster eco-tourism opportunities and international recognition of the Outdoor School.
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