Tours in Welland

A 1968 photograph of Joel Dombrowski shows him as a small boy, peering over a guardrail at Niagara Falls. Awestruck by the crashing waters, he looks as if he's trying to taste the mist. Exciting that sense of wonder in others would later become his profession. Today, Joel escorts first-timers through Niagara Falls State Park as a popular tour guide. He draws upon his training in journalism, experience as a standup comedian, and a lifetime obsession with history to share the story of the park with wit and elegance. For more than 10 years, his approach⎯merging stray historical facts with compelling anecdotes and comical accounts of waterfall lore⎯has made experiencing the Niagara landscape doubly memorable for his tour companions.

For many entrepreneurs, beginning a business can be tedious and tiring. For the founders of Taste the Town Tours, it was downright delicious. In order to locate the most savoury cuisine for their guests, the owners sent their taste buds on a jaunt through Niagara-on-the-Lake's historical downtown district, unleashing them into establishments such as a charming bistro, an Irish tearoom, and a fudge shop. Coupling mouth-watering morsels with cultural information about the area, the guides are able to construct an excursion that is both tasty and educational, like a tour through an edible textbook factory.

A fleet of segways ferries tour takers to scenic outposts in downtown Houston and along the historic bayou during four tours, seven days per week. Guides lead groups of up to eight riders in snapping sunset pictures during the Twilight Bayou tour and spout off historic anecdotes during the Houston History tour. In addition to tours of the city and scenery, friendly guides can travel with a brigade of segways to a client's home or office to teach friends, families, and coworkers how to navigate the two-wheeled steeds more effectively than a renowned segway whisperer.