Following the recent “Sled Friendly” certification Thompson received a few weeks ago, the tourism organization that’s overseeing this program spoke to Arctic Radio about it.

 

Al McLaughlin with the Manitoba Tourism Education Council says the Sled M-B 53 program was derived from a snowmobiling summit that was held in Snow Lake in 2018.

 

Participants pinpointed the need to certify businesses and communities to show snowmobilers visiting the north that their patronage is appreciated.

 

Currently Thompson is the only community that’s certified, but McLaughlin shares that efforts to get more certifications are going well.

 

“We had excellent meetings with Flin Flon, Snow Lake and The Pas and they’re looking at the certification process. Hopefully Thompson won’t be alone at the top and that there will be other communities involved in this.”

 

For more on the Sled M-B 53 program, listen to Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.