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Posted on May 14, 2022July 28, 2022 by titantourisme — Leave a comment

Tourist Scavenger Hunt is a Travel & Hospitality Awards Winner for 2022

The Travel & Hospitality Awards is proud to announce that Tourist Scavenger Hunt has been awarded in its 2022 European Travel Awards program.

2022 European Travel Awards

While this year has been the toughest the travel industry has ever faced, we endeavor to recognize those who deserve praise and to promote the hard work of tenacious travel businesses. Recipients of the Awards in 2022 were scrupulously selected based on the aggregation of reviews from multiple third-party sources such as a panel of experts who analyze submission material, review customer feedback, and compare the facilities of each entrant. Finally, our winners are those who can demonstrate their uniqueness, quality of services and facilities, and exceptional levels of customer care across a number of categories.

In this extraordinary year of the awards over 22,000 nominations were registered for this year’s program. Indeed, the standard of entries was incredibly high. The judging panel had great difficulty in narrowing down the entries. However, the winners reflect the very best in travel and hospitality standards. The team at Travel & Hospitality Awards, said: “We were overwhelmed by the quality of entries this year. We hope this guide will be useful for discerning travelers planning their next luxury getaway. Congratulations once again to all our winners.”

Other Winners

The annual awards publication includes the complete list of winners. It’s available for digital download in July. To receive this publication, we encourage you to join the mailing list to be notified upon its release.

Finally, for more details on Travel & Hospitality Awards, go to www.thawards.com

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About the Company: THE TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY AWARDS is an annual celebration of excellence across all sectors of travel. The independent awards program is a yearly celebration of excellence for the best hotels, spas, restaurants, and tour operators.

About Tourist Scavenger Hunt: Tourist Scavenger Hunt operates 2-3-hour self-guided walking tours in many European, American and Canadian cities. See all the sites while learning about the history, architecture, its people and solve challenges along the way. Of course, for your convenience, you’ll always end near the starting point.

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Travel & Hospitality Awards | +44 (0) 800 048 8265 | Stanley@thawards.com

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Posted on October 5, 2020May 4, 2021 by titantourisme — Leave a comment

History of Fredericton, New Brunswick

In creating our Fredericton Tourist Scavenger Hunt, we dug into the city’s history so as to properly contextualize our tour. It is important for us. At most of the 38 stops along the tour, we explain the history of a site, monument, or person. This allows us to fully show you their significance.

Ancient History of Fredericton

Fredericton is the capital of the province of New Brunswick on the Saint John River. It has a population of 105,000.

Archaeological settlements have been excavated in the area dating back 12,000 years. First Nations Maliseet operated farms here along the Saint John River until the 19th century. Their village Aucpaque was a few miles north of where Fredericton is right now.

The first colonizers were the French at the end of the 17th century. Joseph Robineau de Billebon was the first governor of Acadia (here) in 1690 and established Fort Nashwaak on the north side of the river. An important flood forced the abandonment of the fort was in 1700.

In 1732, other Acadians arrived to establish a village (Pointe Sainte-Anne) south of the river, fleeing the English who had taken Nova Scotia in 1710. By cons, in 1762 the British captured and burned the village, then expelled the Acadians during the seven-year war (1756-1763). In fact, in 1783, loyalist Americans relocated here after the American Revolution (1765-1783).

In 1784, St. Anne’s Point became the capital of New Brunswick, a British province newly separated from Nova Scotia. It has become the capital instead of Saint John because it is further from the US border, making it safer.

His name was changed to Frederick’s Town, then Fredericton in 1785, in honor of the 2nd son of King George III, Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York.

Recent History

Fire destroyed the first Legislative Assembly of 1788 in 1880. Rebuilding began 2 years later and remains active until today.

The city amalgamated the village of Devon in 1945, then other villages in 1973.

Scavenger Hunt

Our scavenger hunt is a self-guided walking tour of the see you can do on your smartphone. Over 2 hours, it’ll take you to all the significant sites, teach you some history, and challenge you with puzzles and various questions.

Find out more about our Fredericton Tourist Scavenger Hunt on the info page.

Posted on September 7, 2020May 4, 2021 by titantourisme — Leave a comment

History of Moncton, Nova-Scotia

In creating our Moncton Tourist Scavenger Hunt, we dug into the city’s history so as to properly contextualize our tour. It is important for us. At most of the 38 stops along the tour, we explain the history of a site, monument, or person. This allows us to fully show you their significance.

History of Moncton

Moncton is in New Brunswick’s southeast along the Petitcodiac River. Being in the center of Canada’s Atlantic provinces, Moncton is often referred to as “the hub” because of its easy access to ports, railway, airport, and highways leading both into the interior of the continent and out across the Atlantic.

It is the most populous city in New Brunswick when you count its metropolitan market, which includes the cities of Dieppe and Riverview.

Its origin goes back to a small Acadian village, before their deportation in 1755 to Louisiana. The village remained empty until 1766 when 8 families arrived to cultivate the region. The city bears the name of Lieutenant-Colonel Monckton who led the capture of Fort Beauséjour in 1755.

It was incorporated as a village in 1855 but lost that status in 1862 when shipbuilding techniques changed for steam rather than sailing and moved elsewhere. It became a village again in 1875, and then a city in 1890.

Scavenger Hunt

Find out more about our Moncton Tourist Scavenger Hunt on the info page.

Posted on August 17, 2020May 4, 2021 by titantourisme — Leave a comment

History of Midtown New York

things to do in Midtown Manhattan, New York

In creating our Midtown New York Tourist Scavenger Hunt, we dug into the city’s history so as to properly contextualize our tour. It is important for us. At most of the 38 stops along the tour, we explain the history of a site, monument, or person. This allows us to fully show you their significance.

History of Midtown New York

Midtown is the central portion of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. It is home to many corporate headquarters including Barns & Noble, Bloomberg, Ernst & Young, Calvin Klein, DC Comics, Six Flags, along with several media companies and advertising agencies.

Many landmarks are also located in Midtown. Some of the landmarks not seen in our scavenger hunt include the Empire State Building, United Nations, and Plaza Hotel. As well, you’ll find nearby Madison Square Gardens, Carnegie Hall, and Pennsylvania Station.

Midtown is broken down into several neighborhoods including Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, Murray Hill, and Gramercy Park. Overlaid on top of these neighborhoods are several districts such as the business, theater, diamond, garment, and Meatpacking districts.

For the first 300 years, Lower Manhattan dominated New York’s economic life. However, that changed in the 1920s with the rebuilding of Grand Central Station into a Terminal, which ignited a capitalist revolution in Midtown. The construction and commercial boom transformed the area into an epicenter of American capitalism.

Scavenger Hunt

Our scavenger hunt is a self-guided walking tour of the see you can do on your smartphone. Over 3 hours, it’ll take you to all the significant sites, teach you some history, and challenge you with puzzles and various questions.

Find out more about our Midtown New York Tourist Scavenger Hunt on the info page.

Posted on August 10, 2020May 4, 2021 by titantourisme — Leave a comment

History of Halifax, Nova-Scotia

In creating our Halifax Tourist Scavenger Hunt, we dug into the city’s history so as to properly contextualize our tour. It is important for us. At most of the 45 stops along the tour, we explain the history of a site, monument, or person. This allows us to fully show you their significance.

Halifax is the capital of Nova Scotia. The Citadel on the hill, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, dominates the city. There are 2 major universities here: Dalhousie University and Saint Mary’s University.

History of Halifax

Halifax is on the ancestral lands of the Mi’kmaq, one of Canada’s first nations. They were there, mainly for fishing, well before the arrival of Europeans.

The first colony settled in the peninsula near the current port. The city of Halifax, founded in 1749, is in fact named in honor of the 2nd Earl of Halifax. This led to the transfer of the colony’s capital here from Annapolis Royal.

The founding of the city started Father Le Loutre’s war because this colony broke the pact agreed with the Mi’kmaq in 1726. 13 ships of settlers and one sloop of war arrived simultaneously to establish and defend the colony.

Fortifications (the Citadel, among others) were erected to defend the new colony from the Mi’kmaq, Acadians, and French. Construction of other forts in Sackville, Dartmouth, and Lawrencetown occurred around the same time.

Disaster struck the city in 1917, during the Great War, as two ships, including one carrying munitions, collided very close to the port. The explosion devastated the Richmond district, killing 2,000 people and injuring 9,000 others.

Scavenger Hunt

Find out more about our Halifax Tourist Scavenger Hunt on the info page.

Posted on July 27, 2020July 28, 2022 by titantourisme — Leave a comment

History of Montreal

Things to do in Montreal Entertainment District, Quartier des Spectacles

In creating our Montreal Tourist Scavenger Hunts, we dug into the city’s history so as to properly contextualize our tour. It is important for us. At most of the stops on our 5 available tours, we explain the history of a site, monument, or person. This allows us to fully show you their significance.

History of Montreal

Jacques Cartier discovered the island of Montreal during his second trip to America, where he happened upon the Iroquoian village of Hochelaga. Samuel de Champlain who explored the St. Lawrence River 70 years later discovered that these Iroquois had left. He established, then abandoned a trading post in 1611 in Old Montreal.

Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve founded Montreal in 1642. Maisonneuve’s name can be found throughout the city. This includes a large park north of the Olympic Stadium in the east, as well as an important east-west artery running through the city center.

Montreal, the center of the hinterland at the time, passed from the French Empire to the British Empire in 1763. The population grew with the immigration of new Scottish and English Bourgeois, as well as British-American loyalists fleeing the American Revolution.

Montreal became important in the late 1800s when rail connections to New York, Toronto, and the Maritime Provinces were established. In 1860, it was the largest British municipality in America until the end of WWII, when Toronto took over.

Indeed, it is the 2nd most populous city in Canada and the 1st in Quebec. It stands on an island in the St. Lawrence River which connects Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal is also the largest French-speaking city in the Americas. It is considered the second-largest French-speaking city in the world after Paris.

Did you know that Montreal celebrated its 375th anniversary in 2017?

Scavenger Hunt

Find out more about our Montreal Tourist Scavenger Hunts on their individual information pages: