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TOURS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 57 Alaska. E-mail request@maxximvacations.com or call 800-567-6666. Tauck World Discovery (www.tauck. com) operates various heli-hiking itineraries, including a nine-day trip through the Canadian Rockies to Calgary, Banff, Lake Louise and the Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park and the Cariboo Mountains. Accommodations are in the Fairmont Banff Springs, the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, the Cariboo Lodge and Delta Bow Valley. Rates start at $4,450 per person double, which includes all helicopter flights but not airfare from home city. There are five departures between July 8 and August 7. Agents can contact any reservation sales counselor at 800468-2825 or info@tauck.com. Tauck’s basic commission rate is 10 percent. Mountain Travel Sobek (www.mtsobek. com) offers an eight-day “Vancouver Island Explorer” itinerary, which travels to all three sections of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, goes hiking through temperate rainforests and along sandy beaches (including the West Coast Trail) and kayaking among the 100 islets of the Broken Group Islands of Barkley Sound (where gray whales, sea lions and bald eagles live), and includes a floatplane trip to a cove where clients can relax in natural hot springs and visit the town of Tofino (featuring Native American art galleries). Trips depart on July 21 and August 4. Land-only prices start at $2,820 per person Clients can follow bald eagles on Canadian Outback Adventures’ “Eagle Safari” day trip for groups of four to eight, plus $280 for internal airfare. Single supplement is $500. Those prices include five nights of bed-and-breakfast accommodations, plus two nights of camping. Agents can contact Kurt Gantert, North America operations manager for Mountain Travel Sobek, at kurt@mtsobek.com, 510-5946000 or 800-282-8747, ext. 6024. The company pays a 10 percent commission to agents. Gutsy Women Travel (www.gutsywomen travel.com) has an escorted six-day “Visions of Vancouver & Victoria” program that departs June 23. Land-only prices start at $2,841 for a single person and cover two nights at the Westin Grand in Vancouver, three nights at the Magnolia Hotel & Spa in Victoria, afternoon tea at the Fairmont Empress Hotel, a reception and three dinners. Highlights include the Royal BC Museum, Craigdarroch Castle, Butchart Gardens, VanDusen Botanical Gardens and Vancouver’s Chinatown. Agents can contact April Merenda, the company’s president, at info@gutsywomen travel.com or 866-464 8879, ext. 1220. Gutsy pays 12 percent commission if booked online or 10 percent if booked via the toll-free number. I Interested? Request #014. 58 | TravelAgent December 10, 2007 http://www.tauck.com http://www.tauck.com http://www.mtsobek.com http://www.mtsobek.com http://www.gutsywomentravel.com http://www.gutsywomentravel.com http://www.nordiquetours.com http://www.nordiquetours.com

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