Progressive Wednesday

Reviving Niagara: E-mail

June 13th, 2007 by Progressive Wednesday

E-mail:

We hemmed and hawed. We confabbed and powwowed amongst our entire staff. There were moments of hullabaloo and others of brouhaha. And we think we’ve got the best minute-for-minute way that folks can help boost tourism to Niagara Falls (excluding, of course, cajoling your best buds and extended family to hop a flight or maybe take a road trip our way). Below you’ll find a letter to the editor that we encourage you to alter depending on your facts, feelings and location[1], then copy, paste, and mass-email the sucker to the following travel magazines:

• National Geographic Magazine: ngsforum@nationalgeographic.com
• National Geographic Traveler Magazine: traveler@nationalgeographic.com
• National Geographic Adventure Magazine: adventure@ngs.org
• Road & Travel Magazine: editor@roadandtravel.com
• World Hum: tips@worldhum.com
• Love Tripper: editors@lovetripper.com
• Travel-Travel-Travel: editor@travel-travel-travel.com
• CNN Traveler: dan.hayes@ink-publishing.com
• Vacations Magazine: contact@VacationsMagazine.com
• Family Fun Magazine: letters.familyfun@disney.com

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Dear Editor:

I recently visited Niagara Falls, New York, and I left stunned by the beauty on display on the American side of this natural wonder of the world. While the Canadian side boasted kitschy pseudo-museums, trinket stores, and family unfriendly gentlemen’s clubs, the American side focuses on the gorgeous environment through the state parks, a helicopter ride, Terrapin Point, the Flight of Angels balloon ride, Cave of the Winds, Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls Observation Tower, and Prospect Point. On the American side, I was able to stand just feet away from all three of the cataracts that together make Niagara Falls. I also hiked down to Devil’s Hole State Park to watch the Class 5 rapids stampeding through the gorge, a breathtaking site in and of itself.

I’m asking that you write an article about this location, encouraging your readers to make a trip to the side of the Falls most suited for families, honeymooners, eco-tourists, and anyone who’s never stood right next to the mighty Niagara.

Sincerely,

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Instead of entering all the addresses into the email as you normally would do, we recommend placing one address in the address bar, and adding the rest as BCC, also known as “blind carbon copy.” You might also send a variation of the letter to your newspaper of choice (you can find a complete listing of newspapers by clicking here). But if you could do us a favor: please don’t send these letters to the good folks at the Niagara Gazette, Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, Tonawanda News, The Journal-Register, The Grand Island Record, or The Buffalo News. We’re pretty sure they know about the grandeur of the Falls. Thanks.

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Editor’s Note: You can contact Travel and Leisure by clicking this sentence.

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[1] If this is going to work, we really need folks to personalize the letter, if only a smidgen (and yes, we just wrote the word “smidgen”). Obviously, if you live in the Niagara area, then you can center the letter around that fact.