Friday, June 3, 2022

Butze Rapids the destination ... as Gitmaxmak'ay Nisga'a Society launches new cruise tourism project


An opportunity to explore the Butze Rapids Trail is being made available to Cruise Ship visitors to Prince Rupert this summer, with the Gitmaxmak'ay Nisga'a Society offering a unique glimpse in one of the city's major attractions, sharing notes with the visitors on a range of Indigenous themes for the outdoor recreation site.

The tourism project has already gone out on its first tours of the season, taking cruise ship visitors from the Ruby Princess the 5.8 kilometres from the Prince Rupert Cruise Terminal to the Butze Rapids staging area off of Highway 16.


The tour guides who work a seven hour day for a number of cruise ship call dates until September run one to three tours per visit, which last approximately three hours each.

The guides greet the guests at the Northland Terminal and then escort the cruise ship passengers through the trail,  providing some background on the local plants, trees and history of the Prince Rupert region with some of the focus on the Indigenous themes of the past for the area.


The initiative not only provides for local employment, but also adds to the local tourism spectrum and provides some Indigenous focus for visitors. 

And while dedicated towards the cruise ship industry for this year, there does seem to be an opportunity for the Gitmaxmak'ay Nisga'a Society to take this years experience and expand on it for a wider catchment of visitors to the community in the future.

They continue to recruit tour guides for the project and you can get a sense of what the program has to offer from this item from the Gitmaxmak'ay Nisga'a Society Facebook page.

For now the tours run through the 2022 Cruise season with the next tour of the Butze Rapids Trail set for June 16th, which marks the next port call for the Ruby Princess and its potential shore visit for 3,080 North Coast explorers.

More notes on the Gitmaxmak'ay Nisga'a Society can be reviewed through our archive page here.

Updates on the 2022 Cruise Season in Prince Rupert are available here.

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