CBS is the place for ‘oohs and aahs’

By Craig Westcott

It shouldn’t come as too big a surprise, given it is the second largest municipality in the province and runs the gamut from rivers to sea and from rural to suburban to almost urban neighbourhoods, but the Town of Conception Bay South has developed eight itineraries that tourists and locals alike are welcome to explore.
Councillor-at-Large Rex Hillier raised the itineraries during his report to council last week on the activities of the town’s tourism committee where he sits as council’s liaison.
“I’m not sure how many people are aware of it, but we have identified and created eight in all itineraries of Conception Bay South,” Hillier said. “We’ve been promoting ourselves as a day trip destination from St. John’s and what’s been done is that we’ve got four half day itineraries, three full day itineraries, and one two-day itinerary.”
Hillier, who is a retired educator, said he has worked a little in the tourism industry and was struck by a comment he once heard about travellers.
“One of the gentlemen that I worked for when we had tourists around used to say, ‘I wonder what they see that we don’t see?’ in terms of the oohs and the aahs that they were giving to what they saw around Newfoundland,” Hillier recalled. “And it’s the same way when I look at these itineraries around Conception Bay South and the things that people can do here on a half day basis, on a full day basis, or on a two-day basis… We’ve certainly got a rich tourist package for those who come this way.”