The Bay of Fundy has been participating in a contest to declare the New7Wonders of Nature since June of 2008. The top Canadian site was announced this morning and it was Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta.
http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/nominees/northamerica/Big thanks to EVERYONE who rallied so enthusiastically to support Fundy in this initiative!!
Bay of Fundy benefited greatly from participation in this contest:
- we were accepted as one of only 5 Canadian sites into this prestigious contest. In order to even be considered, we had to make a case for why Fundy qualified to compete internationally and this was easily made.
- our region got international exposure on the New7Wonders website for 8 months while we participated
- when the votes closed last week we were sitting in the top 1/4 of all international nature tourism sites
- we raised awareness of the significance of the Bay of Fundy as one of Canada's top nature tourism destinations
- we've calculated about $300,000 in free media coverage of Fundy
- we've witnessed a 400% increase in visitation to our website
- we had a good time doing it !!
HUGE thanks to everyone who supported Fundy in this bid. Easy to see why the folks in our region have a reputation for being friendly, determined, clever and enthusiastic!!