| Big Apple Greeters is an organization of | | | | Chicago, San Antonio/Texas, Sydney and - soon |
| local New York City volunteers that give | | | | to come - Toronto.As I will be heading off to |
| their personal time to out-of-town visitors | | | | New York City next week, I have arranged for |
| and show them around local neighbourhoods and | | | | a local Big Apple Greeter to meet my husband |
| sites. I have just had a chance to connect | | | | and me next Friday and I am really looking |
| with Gail Morse, the organization's Director | | | | forward to meeting a local who can take us |
| of Marketing and Public Relations and | | | | around and give us her personal insights |
| Marketing, who will be able to answer some of | | | | about living in New York City.So stay tuned |
| my questions about the Greeter program in the | | | | for my upcoming live travel reports from New |
| next few weeks.The information on the Big | | | | York City and the interview with the Big |
| Apple Greeter website states that "Big Apple | | | | Apple Greeters!Susanne Pacher is the |
| Greeter's mission is to enhance New York | | | | publisher of a website called Travel and |
| City's worldwide image and enrich the New | | | | Transitions ( Travel and Transitions deals |
| York Experience by connecting Visitors with | | | | with unconventional travel and is chock full |
| knowledgeable and enthusiastic Volunteers. | | | | of advice, tips, real life travel |
| The mission was created to accomplish the | | | | experiences, interviews with travellers and |
| following goals:- promote a friendly, | | | | travel experts, insights and reflections, |
| inviting, manageable image of New York City- | | | | cross-cultural issues, contests and many |
| bolster tourism and to foster economic | | | | other features. You will also find stories |
| development- create opportunities for New | | | | about life and the transitions that we face |
| Yorkers to show pride in their city and give | | | | as we go through our own personal life-long |
| back to their city through | | | | journeys.Submit your own travel stories in |
| volunteering"Incidentally the Big Apple | | | | our first travel story contest ( and have a |
| Greeter program has been so popular that it | | | | chance to win an amazing adventure cruise on |
| has spawned off greeter organizations in | | | | the Amazon River. |
| other cities around the world, including | | | | |