Joggins Announced as one of the Top 5 Travel Celebrities for 2009 by the LA Times!

The LA Times has announced where it considers to be the top 29 destinations to visit in 2009 and the Joggins Fossil Cliffs features at a heady number four.

The list, compiled by the newspaper's travel editors, was developed to present alternative places to visit, which would offer American travellers with "compelling" and "uncrowded" sites, which also include sites in; Latvia, Tibet, Vietnam and Poland.

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs is described by the LA Times as "scenic" and a "300 million year old treat". The cliffs are offered as a new and much safer alternative to Mexico (a popular vacation spot for Californians) and have gained their prestigious place on the list by becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008 and primarily for their well-preserved fossils. The travel writers for the LA Times recommend that readers "do what many Hollywood movie studios did and go to Canada".

We are pretty confident about the 2009 season, despite widespread global economical nerves, which are giving some destinations the jitters. This article confirms that the province will potentially get a significant number of visitors from the USA, riding on the back of discounted flights between the west coast of the States and Halifax.

This is an exciting time for Joggins, for Cumberland County and indeed for the Province as a whole. The designation of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs on the World Heritage List and the opening of the new Joggins Fossil Centre last year, plus the tremendous amount of global media interest in the site since has been amazing.

www.latimes.com/travel