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Community Promotion: Capitalizing on the Experiential Tourism Opportunity

Patrick Ryan is one of Clarenville's (and Newfoundland's) biggest tourism boosters - He lives in Nova Scotia. Each fall, for the past decade, Ryan and a half dozen or more of his ATVing friends have been coming to Newfoundland and making a week-long trip across the island on the old rail bed (T'rialway). Ryan has been documenting his travels in a Vlog series called, appropriately,  Crossing Newfoundland by ATV   (and its companion YouTube Channel  EastCoastATV  ) Each January, he posts their fall trip in video installments - and each year, thousands of people watch these videos - a good number of whom are inspired to make the trip for themselves.  Ryan's videos have presented a golden opportunity for us to better prepare to capture the benefits of this exposure.  Opportunities for Clarenville and Clarenville area Businesses For east-west trips, Clarenville is always their first overnight stop.  His videos feature Clarenville, the services available here and the local tr