Presented to an individual, organization, business or marketing consortium in recognition of a new tourism product/service/process or approach that increases tourism to Winnipeg.
Award Nominees
Activate Games - AWARD WINNER
After two years of brainstorming, the creative minds behind Winnipeg’s The Real Escape created a completely new form of entertainment called “active gaming.” Activate offers players a high-tech experience that test a team’s physical and mental agility across a variety of interactive challenges. After a year in operation, Activate has had more than 80,000 unique visitors, most of whom have returned multiple times. Activate draws customers from outside the city, province and country thanks to its one-of-a-kind business not found anywhere else in the world.
Bon Appétit Saint-Boniface Culinary Walking Tours
TOURISME RIEL
In summer 2018, Tourisme Riel launched bi-weekly walking history and culinary tours
of St. Boniface that quickly sold out. To meet demand, the tour program expanded
to become a weekly summer offering in 2019, with a progressive meal at four local
restaurants and historical interpretations of Winnipeg’s vibrant French Quarter. These
tours provided visitors another reason to explore the area and attracted guests from
outside the province to join.
The Common Patio
THE FORKS NORTH PORTAGE PARTNERSHIP
The barrier-free, licensed Common patio is The Forks Market’s outdoor iteration of its
successful interior craft beer and wine kiosk. Attention to detail in its design helped
shape its success, including comfortable furnishings, 100-seat harvest table, deck
chairs, shaded dining, picnic-style family gathering areas and fire pits, a popular
spot for winter gatherings. This new concept has resulted in an increase in visitors by
approximately 30 per cent and has enlivened The Forks experience through all seasons.