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