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$content = "<p>Delve deeper.</p>
<p>Explore more.</p>
<p>Appreciate more.</p>
<p>Dive into the authentic.</p>
<p>Stay longer.</p>
<p>Slip off the beaten track.</p>
<p>The new 'Stay a While' campaign of the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association is urging visitors to the region to do just that.</p>
<p>Tourists that stay longer also spend more money.</p>
<p>And that's important because tourism is one of the biggest economic engines in the region with 4,500 tourism businesses and 3.5 million visitors a year spending $2 billion.</p>
<p>That puts tourism on par with the area's four other economic generators -- high tech, construction-real estate, retail-trade and agriculture-wine.</p>
<p><img alt="<who>Photo credits: Tourism Kelowna</who>Beaches and lakes are one of the main reasons tourists come to the Thompson Okanagan." class="img-responsive" src="/files/files/images/Kelowna%20waterfront%20park%20and%20beach(1).jpg" style="margin: 5px;" /></p>
<p><img alt="" class="img-responsive" src="/files/files/images/kelowna%20beach.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" /></p>
<p>The Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association is promoting 'Stay a While' through its extensive advertising, social media and industry networks to locals, travellers and tourism professionals like tour operators, travel agents and industry associations.</p>
<p>'Stay a While' is inviting and vague enough that it could meanspend an extra hour somewhere or add on a few days or a week to a vacation.</p>
<p>In the 'Stay a While' section of the association's website, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.thompsonokanagan.com/stay-a-while&source=gmail&ust=1715119666695000&usg=AOvVaw2jdIBqT72EJPdEObBhEOvc" href="https://www.thompsonokanagan.com/stay-a-while" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr />thompsonokanagan.com/stay-a-<wbr />while</a>, a myriad of ways are outlined to spend more time in six categories:</p>
<p>1. Road trip adventures</p>
<p>2. Food and beverage delights</p>
<p>3. Arts and culture exploration</p>
<p>4. Soft adventures' awe-inspiring moments</p>
<p>5. Thrilling adventures</p>
<p>6. Indigenous culture</p>
<p><img alt="<who>Photo credit: Steve MacNaull/NowMedia Group</who>Combine two of the Thompson Okanagan's attractions and cycle from winery to winery." class="img-responsive" src="/files/files/images/cycling%20to%20winery.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" /></p>
<p>The overwhelming advantage of the Thompson Okanagan as a tourist destination is its incredible diversity.</p>
<p>The 'Stay a While' campaign pays tribute to that with verbiage such as: "A region that is filled with diverse climates of tall mountains, rolling hills, raging rivers, peaceful lakes, a dry desert and a temperate rainforest."</p>
<p>In the region, there are 120 communities from small villages to bigger cities like Kelowna, Kamloops, Penticton and Vernon, 33 Indigenous communities, and the four cornerstones of tourism -- beaches and lakes, food and wine and beer, golf and skiing.</p>
<p>And there are so many niches in between to create the perfect family vacation, couples' or friends' getaway, corporate trip or conference.</p>
<p>We're talking distinctive hotels and resorts, spas and wellness activities, rock climbing, zip lining, picking your own fruit, cooking classes, art galleries, horseback riding, camping, mountain biking and city cycling.</p>
<p><img alt="<who>Photo credit: Discover Naramata</who>Water activities abound in the Thompson Okanagan." class="img-responsive" src="/files/files/images/Naramata%20canoe.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" /></p>
<p>'Stay a While' messaging also promises: "Here, you will find year-round activities that are suitable for thrill seekers, leisurely travellers and everyone in between."</p>
<p>The 'Stay a While' promise also ties in nicely with the 7 Generations Pledge recognizing that the Thompson Okanagan is on the traditional unceded territory of three Interior Salish nations -- Syilx, Nlaka'pamux and Secewpemc.</p>
<p>The pledge "invite(s) you to explore the region for the first time, 100th time, or as a local, while respecting the beautiful natural spaces and communities calling it home."</p>
<p><img alt="<who>Photo credit: Darren Robertson</who>There is so much wilderness in the Thompson Okanagan for hiking and sightseeing." class="img-responsive" src="/files/files/images/Boundary%20Country%20by%20Darren%20Robinson.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" /></p>
<p>For tourism purposes, the Thompson Okanagan is broken down into nine regions -- Central Okanagan, South Okanagan, Similkameen Valley, North Okanagan, South Thompson, North Thompson, Gold Country, Shuswap and Boundary Country.</p>
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