June 2019 BCATW Buzz

President’s Message

Media Member News

Irene Butler’s visit to Italy’s Isle of Capri was featured in Travel Writers Tales during May. Being saturated in dazzling hues inside the Blue Grotto, claimed to be “the bluest blue on earth” is an anomaly of nature forever imbedded in her memory!

On Irene and Rick’s travel agenda this summer are visits to nine locales inside the Arctic Circle.

Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission Columbia capsule, part of a traveling exhibition commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing from the Smithsonian at The Museum of Flight, Seattle. | Photo: Simon Lau

Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission Adrenalin Junkies

“We choose to go to the moon,” former President John F. Kennedy boldly proclaimed on September 12, 1962. While his goal of having a man on the moon before the end of the decade was received with great skepticism, his speech inspired a nation to dream big.

In celebration of the 50^thAnniversary of the moon landing this summer, join luxury fashion and travel writer Edward Quan as he shares his exclusive visit of the historic traveling Smithsonian exhibition Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission at the Museum of Flight.

Learn about American’s first adrenalin junkies, participants in NASA’s earliest astronaut program and the life threatening challenges of space travel as they wrote the greatest achievement in mankind history. Read his travel story at Style Drama.

Industry Member News

Welcome Town Hall Brands

We welcome Town Hall Brands as a new industry member!

Town Hall Brands, based in Vancouver BC, builds brands, and promotes them. The team offers marketing strategy, graphic design, packaging, promotional campaigns and PR, and social media outreach.

Leeann Froese and Andrew von Rosen head Town Hall, supported by a smart, dedicated and hard-working team.

The company is named “Town Hall” based on collaboration, which Leeann and Andrew feel is so important, especially in this era of crowd-sourced information and real-time customer feedback.

The concept of the town hall—the place people gather to exchange and share valuable ideas and information—forms the foundation. Town Hall Brands is a lifestyle destination and the team delivers projects that inspire and celebrate the good life.

MeetUps News

Stay tunes for details on our Meetup scheduled for fall 2019.