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