| MS.
JONES: |
Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to congratulate
Martin Flynn of Forteau, Labrador.
His business, MarbleZip Tours, recently received the
Tourism Atlantic Technology Award during the 2009
Lookout! Tourism Summit.
Mr. Speaker, this award was created by the Atlantic
Canada Opportunities Agency in 2004 for a tourism
operator in each of the Atlantic Provinces who has been
innovative and creative in the use of technology to
improve and grow their tourism operations.
Mr. Speaker, MarbleZip Tours opened in Steady Brook
last August after Mr. Flynn, who has a background in
adventure tourism, saw an opportunity to create a zip
tour experience in Newfoundland and Labrador. One of his
major marketing tools is in Web site development, and he
has utilized this technology to promote the Zipline to a
very broad audience.
Mr. Flynn’s ingenuity and insight led him to adding
popular social networks, such as Youtube links and a
Facebook page to his Web site to showcase the experience
of zipping on a steel cable strung between platforms on
trees or towers, at heights that offer panoramic views
of the landscape below.
This is an adventure that is brand new to the
Province, and I would certainly recommend it to my
colleagues in the House of Assembly, if they have not
already tried it. It was a great experience, I say to
you. There is nothing quite like looking out over Steady
Brook in the Humber Valley and looking over the
mountains, Mr. Speaker, as you are zipping across 200
feet of cable, I think, across the gorge. At some
heights I think it reaches 800 feet or something, or it
is 800 feet long - that is what it is, yes - at 200 feet
high, so it is quite an experience.
Premier, maybe when you are out there the next time
you will be enticed to try the Zipline across Steady
Brook. You might even be able to see your district from
there, I think, if you can see over the tops of the
mountains.
Anyway, Mr. Speaker, it is a great new attraction to
the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador by a young
entrepreneur, and I certainly hope that Members in the
House of Assembly will get an opportunity to try the
Zipline in our Province, and join me in congratulating
Mr. Martin Flynn for the great work that he is doing in
promoting a new product in this Province.
Thank you. |
