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It’s Festival Season in Chenango County! Summer season is back in full swing in Chenango County, located in the heart of Central New York. Each summer, nationally recognized arts and music festivals draw thousands to see emerging and established performers, artisans, poets and more for family-friendly summer weekends. Chenango County has become a destination for music lovers far and wide. This year’s 29th Annual Chenango Blues Festival is slated for August 19th and 20th with headliner Jimmie Vaughan. This festival draws attendees from all over the eastern United States to enjoy its family-friendly atmosphere and national-calibre musical talent. It received worldwide recognition in 2016 when the Blues Foundation
recognized it as Best U.S. Festival. The festival organizers also host the NBT Bank Free Thursday night concert series in East Side Park all summer long, with over a thousand people a week coming together to hear artists from a wide range of genres perform. Basketball fans everywhere know that the famous Gus Macker three-on-three tournament takes over downtown Norwich for a fun-filled weekend each July. Over 400 teams play in a double-elimination round robin tournament with different classifications. Still run in a hometown, friendly manner, the Macker has grown to national prominence. As a partner in the Brew Central beverage trail, near the southern
Whether you are here for a short visit or are considering a relocation to our area, we welcome you. For ‘Everything Chenango,’ go to our website www.visitchenango.com, or call 607-334-1400 to get your free visitors guide.
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end of Chenango County, you’ll find the Madrona Tasting Room. At the same time, up in the northern part of the County, the Bullthistle Brewing Company creates craft beers that have developed a large and devoted following. Fairly new to our area is Hidden Springs Brewhouse in Norwich and Forged Brewery located in Coventry. And for the first time this year, Commerce Chenango Tourism is prepping for the inaugural Wine, Beer, and Food Truck festival slated for July 30, 2022. Looking for action? One of the many unique attractions in Chenango County is the Unadilla Valley Sports Center, a professional motocross track that is considered one of the best tracks in the country. Spectators and riders come to the track in New Berlin from all over America to partake in their summer races.
Sustainable Adventure in the Heart of the World Across Türkiye, travellers can explore majestic mountains, Whether you’re craving time in sparkling lakes, caves, and nature away from the crowds national parks. Türkiye is also or seeking an immersion in home to an abundance of traditional heritage, Türkiye calls UNESCO cultural and natural to green-minded adventurers heritage locations focusing from all over the world. on historical landmarks and Late last year, Türkiye’s sustainable travel. Türkiye President Tayyip Erdogan has 18 locations recognized changed the country’s by UNESCO, including the internationally recognized Karain Cave, The Mausoleum name from Turkey to Türkiye, of Hecatomnus, Cappadocia, which is the way the country and more. is pronounced in Turkish. Regarding the change, President CHOOSE ECO-FRIENDLY Erdogan said, “The word TRAVEL FOR A BETTER, Türkiye represents and expresses HEALTHY WORLD the culture, civilization, and Get off the main trails and values of the Turkish nation in take in the natural beauty of the best way.” Türkiye while keeping your carbon footprint small. There Türkiye’s culture and values surrounding tourism focus on are so many ways to explore sustainability, making the country Türkiye using eco-friendly the ultimate destination for transportation, from scenic bike travellers seeking an adventure trails suitable for all skill levels that is both unforgettable and to low-impact train travel with magical views along the way. environmentally conscious. The country is working to ensure Türkiye is driven to make the travellers focus on ecothe country a more sustainable tourism and leave behind nothing global tourist destination by but footprints. prioritizing the protection of the
adventure. Spend the day hiking through numerous national parks and mountains and fall asleep to the soothing sounds of the waters. The bravest of adventurers will enjoy outdoor adventures like rock climbing, caving, and horseback riding.
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planet in everything they do. To do so, they have implemented international environmental conventions and have focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development goals as the foundation for their tourism strategy. Discover the beautiful wildlife and natural areas in the region, like Caretta Carettas (Loggerhead sea turtles) hatching on Turkish beaches. Nature
lovers will be enchanted by the floral richness of Türkiye’s vast fields of flowers—the country is home to nearly 12,000 species of plants and over 2,300 species of mushrooms. Even more magical are the many colourful butterflies native to Türkiye, most notably in the provinces of Van, Hakkari, and Artvin. Feel the full force of Türkiye’s natural charm by packing a tent and embarking on a camping
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Returning to Travel in a Spirit of Reconciliation What if you could do what you’ve longed to do these past two years—travel! Be a carefree tourist again!—and make an easy and meaningful contribution to Reconciliation just by taking a trip? That’s the value proposition Indigeno Travel, Canada’s first Indigenous-owned full-service national travel agency, is hoping conscientious travellers of ever y kind—business and leisure, Indigenous and non-Indigenous—will find impossible to resist as they emerge from their COVID cocoons and welcome an opportunity to reduce Canada’s deepest historic disparity simply by travelling. “When you travel with Indigeno, you’re helping us grow what we believe is destined to become an iconic success story in the emerging Indigenous economy,” says Chris Maxfield, Co-founder and VP of Business Development. “The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has challenged Canadians to make economic Reconciliation an integral
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part of the national healing process,” notes Indigeno Board Director Jessica Dumas, the first Indigenous woman to have chaired the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. “Canadians want to do the right thing. Indigeno helps them fulfil that commitment, whether by booking a family vacation, arranging accommodations for a large institutional event or handling the complex travel requirements of a corporation or government.” Headquartered on Treaty One
territory in Winnipeg, Indigeno Travel is powered by an operational partnership with two of Canada’s leading independent travel firms: Great Canadian Travel Group—a multi-awardwinning Mecca for leisure travellers—and Continental Travel Group, a stalwart provider of corporate travel. The result is Indigeno Travel operates at the scale, capacity and expertise of one of Canada’s largest full-service travel agencies. Indigeno President and CEO
Phil Sproul has been there, done that many times over, having helmed some of North America’s largest travel brands for more than three decades. In addition to helping you book that Paris-in-springtime getaway, Indigeno is your natural go-to agency for the world’s most exciting array of Indigenous tourism experiences. “As the lead organization tasked with growing the Indigenous tourism industry across Canada,” says Keith Henry, President and CEO of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada, “we are proud to be working with an Indigenous travel agency to promote and commercialize some 1,800 Indigenous tourism experiences across the country. Despite the pandemic’s devastating impacts, ITAC is working hand in hand with Indigeno to ensure a path to recovery for the providers of these tourism experiences.” Reinvigorating Canada’s Indigenous tourism sector is also a priority for Indigeno’s newest equity partner, the
Treaty One Development Corporation (T1DC). “Travel is about to come back in a big way,” says T1DC spokesperson Chief Dennis Meeches. “Indigeno offers a choice for Canadians of goodwill towards Indigenous people.” It’s an emotional moment for Chris Maxfield. “When the late Darrell Phillips, or Little Black Bear as he was traditionally known, and I first conceived of Indigeno Travel,” Chris says, “we dreamed of a way for all Canadians to take part in Reconciliation simply by doing what they already love to do—travel. Canadians have never yearned to travel more than they do now, and the thirst for Reconciliation has never been stronger. We are all just raring to go!” Making your next trip an Indigeno experience—and voting with your dollars for Reconciliation—is as easy as visiting their website at indigenotravel.com to “explore the possibilities.”
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