EDMUNDSTON, NB-Rolande Thibodeau, general manager of the Ramada Plaza Crystal Palace in Dieppe, NB is the 2010 Pioneer award winner.
Presenting the Pioneer 2010 Award, L to R, Honourable Brian Kenny, Minister of Tourism and Parks; Valmont Martin, president of Edmundston Madawaska Tourism and Pioneer 2000; Rolande Thibodeau, recipient of the prestigious Pioneer Award 2010; Joanne Bérubé-Gagné, president, TIANB; and Honourable Rob Moore, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism and MP for the Fundy-Royal, NB riding.
The Tourism Industry Association of New Brunswick presented the award at the organization's annual conference, held in late May.
TIANB singled out Thibodeau for her "long time commitment and outstanding dedication to the promotion of tourism and the province of New Brunswick."
She started as a front desk clerk with Ramada in 1981 and moved up the company ranks before being named general manager at the hotel in 1995.
"I knew I was nominated, but I never ever thought I would win. I'm honoured. I was really surprised and shocked and I accept it with pride," Thibodeau said.
L'Auberge Les Jardins Inn won the ACOA Tourism Atlantic Technology award for the best use of technology to positively impact the tourism experience for visitors to the province.
left to right: Valmont Martin – L’Auberge Les
Jardins Inn – Recipient of the 2010 ACOA Tourism Atlantic Technology Award,
Joanne Bérubé-Gagné – President of the Tourism Industry Association of New
Brunswick, Francine Landry - L’Auberge Les Jardins Inn, Honourable Rob Moore
– Minister of State Small Business and Tourism
The Inn, located in Edmundston, NB on a seven-acre property, moved to an online booking system that gave the hotel the ability to upsell. It also designed a more interesting and visually appealing website. Valmont Martin and Francine Landry are the owners of L'Auberge Les Jardins.
Village Historique Acadien, a recreation of an Acadian village, in Caraquet, NB, was rewarded for its Sustainable Tourism by Parks Canada. The Acadians were the first French settlers in the province.
left to right: Joanne Bérubé-Gagné – President of
the Tourism Industry Association of New Brunswick, Myriam Léger – Village
Historique Acadien – Winner of the 2010 Parks Canada Sustainable Tourism
Award, Paul Perkinson and Nadine Gauvin, Parks Canada
"By gathering interpreters from all areas of the Acadian Peninsula and adjoining regions, the VHA contributes to linking communities together," TIANB said.
New Brunswick Tourism and Parks presented its own set of awards in the areas of product development, marketing programs and creative partnerships in the tourism sector.
The King George B&B, owned by Sara Mac-Innis and John Murphy, won the Excellence and Innovation in Tourism Marketing award.
Theirs is the only B&B in Miramichi offering Murder on the Menu, a five-course dinner theatre where guests arrive in costume. Murphy and MacInnis also run a cooking school with local chefs.
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