Great Excursions adventure travel blog earns #1 Google ranking

August 18, 2010

REGINA, August 18, 2010 – Within a few days of being re-launched, one of Great Excursions’ online resources, Explore-Canada (www.explore-canada.blogspot.com) is earning the #1 position out of 250-million Google keyword searches for “Explore Canada”, one of the most popular strings used by consumers travelling to Canada.

“It is great to see our social media marketing efforts paying off this way,” said Great Excursions’ Founder and Manager Claude-Jean Harel. “Tourism marketing tactics are evolving rapidly and one’s ability to harness social media’s potential in engaging consumers and international meeting planners will inevitably make a difference in bringing new visitors to Regina, Saskatchewan and Canada,” he added.

Having an integrated online presence in today’s tourism world is critical. With 6 blogs – two of which are in French – a Twitter and a Facebook page, Great Excursions offers some of Saskatchewan’s richest travel information and tourism services, from group tours, ranch, canoeing or fishing vacations to meeting planning and receptive tour operator services.

“Our company has been flying under the radar for many years in Saskatchewan because we focused our efforts mainly on reaching international visitors in high-yield markets in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia,” Harel explains. “We expanded outside the province and now we have travel agent partners in other countries who rely on us for their clients’ needs. This results in new business for key suppliers across Canada, consequently, in more mutually-beneficial partnerships,” Harel concludes.

For more information, contact:

Claude-Jean Harel, MA MAHI
Phone : (306) 791-4335
Email : cj@greatexcursions.travel
www.greatexcursions.travel