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Media Contact: Karen Blom, Public Relations
Phone: 800 532-7483
Email: 
karen@zoaroutdoor.com

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Team Awards

In 2006, our Lodge Manager, Philip May, won a Howdy award for hospitality excellence from the Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau. In 2005, I won an Outstanding Instructor Award from the American Canoe Association and in 1997, our Rafting Manager, Kevin McMillan, won a Mass Office of Travel and Tourism award for hospitality excellence.

PR highlights

2006:

This year, we have been featured in National Geographic Adventure, Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England , AMC Outdoors and on Fox News.

2005:

In 2005, we were in the Lowell Sun, the Boston Sunday Globe, Livin’ the Vermont Way , National Geographic Adventure, Paddler magazine, the New York Daily News

2004:

In 2004, we were in AAA Horizon magazine, the Boston Sunday Herald, New England Travel and Life, Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England , AMC Outdoors and the Boston Sunday Globe travel section.  We were also featured in 4 episodes of the New England Sports Network reality TV show, Roughing It.

2003:

In October, 2003, we created and hosted the first Annual Whitewater Symposium (wwsymposium.com).  The event has since been hosted by Nantahala Outdoor Center , in 2004, Glenwood Springs , CO in 2005 and it will be at Current Adventures in CA in October of 2006. Other PR in 2003: New York Metro magazine, Family Fun magazine, front page of the Boston Globe travel section, MetroSports magazine.

2002:

In 2002 our kayak school was featured in the Boston Globe Sunday Travel section.  In June, 2002, our rafting was featured in Boston Magazine.  In May, 2002, our kayak school was featured in the New York Times travel section.