Bus Tours Blog

The Henderson Chamber of Commerce and the City of Henderson is planning its annual “It’s Happening in Henderson” narrated bus tour of the nation’s fastest-growing city.

The bus tour is scheduled for Oct. 25 and will start at 8:30 a.m., and is open to the public. A continental breakfast will be served at the Civic Center Plaza, which is located between City Hall and the Convetion Center. Buses will depart from the Plaza at 9 a.m. and return at approximately noon to the Plaza. Box lunches will also be provided to participants in the tour at the end of the tour.

Each participant will be given a book at the beginning of the tour, which includes information on some of the major developments in Henderson. Tickets are $20 prior to Oct. 18, and $30 after Oct. 18.

Two years ago, Maryland native Nathaniel Elliott wanted to do something to get the word out about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa to his peers.

The teen helped spark the Living Hope Bus Tour, which is traveling across the United States to raise awareness among other young adults about the epidemic.

“Having a passion in life gives you direction,” said the 18-year-old, who will start college this fall at Taylor University in Upland, Ind. [...]

If the jet hijackings and attacks on the World Trade Center have been a financial disaster for airlines, they’ve had the opposite effect on local bus tours and cruises.
Motorcoach tour operators report a surge of interest in the last few weeks, in line with Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau President Michael Hollander’s prediction that the next trend in tourism will be trips taken closer to home and on the ground.
Gayle Haines, who runs Light House Safaris, got a call shortly after the Sept. 11 disaster from a cruise ship company whose seven-day Hudson River-to-New England cruise suddenly needed an alternative to a scheduled stop in New York City.
She hastily arranged a series of half-day lighthouse and winery tours out of Greenport, which proved so pop╜ular with passengers that she expects it to become a regular feature of the cruise. [...]

Am I punch-drunk? Woozy? Dazzled, maybe? No, no, no.

What I am is  beguiled.

I just left Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s office, where I was summoned yesterday by The Good Carty. From notes I took during my hour-plus mayoral meeting:

I am being wooed. Such charisma! Whatta smile!!

And to think, Carty played defense on a column I probably wouldn’t have even written.

This involved a tale of, depending on the teller, a mayoral (a) kidnapping or (b) kindness. As one city hall vet said: “People are just dying about this story.” [...]

AGOURA HILLS, CALIF. — DTS Entertainment wound up a month-long 18-city bus tour to promote awareness among consumers and retailers of its catalog of 5.1-channel music CDs and its first DVD-Audio discs.

The DVD-Audio discs feature a backup DTS-encoded program playable on existing DVD-Video players.

The bus, which ended its tour at the NARM convention in Orlando, Fla., featured a Pioneer DVD player and plasma monitor and a JBL 5.1-channel audio system.

The bus hit cities in Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. Retailers visited included Amazon.com, Best Buy, Borders, Fred Meyer, J & R Music World, Musicland, Target, Tower Records, Virgin Records and The Wiz. Some of the retail stops were promoted as consumer events. [...]