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 | | Nova Scotia's spectacular new musical production, DRUM!, featuring 20 musicians, dancers, drummers and singers from four of the principal cultures - Black, Acadian, Aboriginal and Celtic - brought together in a heart-pumping fusion of music, dance, poetry, video, rhythm and song will have performances in Halifax from Sept. 14 to Oct. 31/07 and Sept. 12 to Oct. 1/08. |  |  | | Autumn is the time when the sounds of fiddles, pipes and voices in song echo over Cape Breton Island with Celtic Colours International Festival from October 6-14/07. Selected as one of the American Bus Association's Top 100 Events in Canada, this is an event to remember with over 250 musicians, dancers, singers and storytellers at venues across the island. | |  | | Celebrate the 225th anniversary of the "first" landing of United Empire Loyalists in Canada at Loyalist Landing 2008 in Shelburne with historical, multi-cultural, contemporary and participative events. | |  | | 2008 marks the 250th anniversary of the second siege of Louisbourg. A number of events are planned are Fortress Louisbourg National Historic Site to commemorate this anniversary including an Encampment and Military displays from July 25-27. The Town of Louisbourg will also be hosting a series of town Encampment festivities and events through the summer running from June to October. |
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 | | Visit Dartmouth Crossing, Nova Scotia's newest and most exciting shopping experience. Located in a prime location off Highway 118, the shops and boutiques at Dartmouth Crossing are designed to allow shoppers to experience neighbourhood shopping at its best. |
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 | | The 125-room Courtyard by Marriott - Downtown Halifax is now open. This non-smoking property features scenic views of Halifax Harbour from 80% of its guestrooms. | |  | | The 66-room Super 8 Motel in Windsor is now open. This property is located in the heart of Nova Scotia at the eastern gateway to the beautiful Annapolis Valley. | |  | | Days Inns Canada has announced the opening of its newest location in Dartmouth. The former Future Inns property offers 141 spacious guest rooms. | |  | | The Best Western Chocolate Lake Hotel is expected to open on October 1/07. The former Keddy's property on St. Margaret's Bay Road will feature 141 newly-furnished guest rooms. | |  | | Advanced Hospitality Inc. has announced the building of a 125-room Best Western Hotel & Suites in the Burnside area of Dartmouth which is scheduled to open in March 2008. | |  | | New Castle Hotels has announced the building of a Hampton Garden Inn at Dartmouth Crossing which will open in 2008. Also opening at Dartmouth Crossing in 2008 is a 150-room Springhill Suites by Marriott Hotel. | | | | A Holiday Inn Express will open close to the Halifax Robert L. Stanfield International Airport in 2008. |
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 | | The Great Hall of the Clans Museum at the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts & Crafts in St. Ann's, Cape Breton, re-opened in June following renovations to introduce eight new interactive stations that will portray the cultural and linguistic contributions of Nova Scotia Gaels. The new exhibit stations will profile various facets of Gaelic culture from music, song and dance to textiles and shared traditions. | |  | | 1 Nova Scotia Museum family... 27 soul-touching, curiosity-sparking museums! Explore historic homes and living history villages. Discover seafaring superstitions and the oldest dinosaurs in North America! Learn traditional skills or speak an Acadian or Gaelic phrase. The Museum family offer your clients a memorable heritage experience. Check out what's new at Nova Scotia's Provincial Museums. | |  | | Visitors to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic this summer had better tread carefully as the whole place will be overrun with pirates!! Learn about the fact and fiction surrounding some of Nova Scotia's best known and most feared ne'er-do-wells and discover the truth behind the legends. | |  | | Chocolate culture is alive and well at Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site. Visitors to the site can meet a merchant importing chocolate, speak to a servant preparing hot chocolate for her mistress or personally experience the taste of historic chocolate in one of the restaurants, where it’s incorporated in the 18th century menu. Chocolate programs can be customized for your group. Also new are 18th Century Gardens and Cooking Workshops where visitors can learn about period herbal remedies, discover plants grown from heritage seed strains, help prepare an 18th century French Colonial dish and much more. |
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 | | Canadian Sailing Expeditions will introduce a new summer series for 2008 featuring Nova Scotia in their Atlantic Canada Voyages, Explorer Series. The Lighthouses & Coastal Colours tour will depart from and return to Halifax and features various ports on the South Shore including Port Mouton, Liverpool, Lunenburg and Mahone Bay. |
| | Nova Scotia representative(s) will be attending these upcoming marketplaces / trade shows:
- OMCA Annual Conference & Marketplace, November 11-14, 2007, Ottawa, ON
- NTA Annual Convention, November 2-6, 2007, Kansas City, MO
- World Travel Market, November 12-15, London
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