Surely organizations that represent us to the world (sometimes with tax dollars) would hold themselves to a higher standard than do individual authors. Apparently not. Consider the first picture. Someone actually spent money to hang this in the terminal of the Castlegar airport (picture taken last March).<\/p>\n
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Quite a few tourism websites show equal incompetence. A website offered by\u00a0West Kootenay Park Management<\/a>\u00a0welcomes people to the \u201cProvincial Parks of the West Kootenays.\u201d\u00a0Kootenaysbc.com<\/a> tells viewers about these phantom places three times and suggests that \u201cAbout 100 years ago, prospectors came to the West Kootenays….\u201d The International Selkirk Loop<\/a>\u00a0website offends so many times that it takes Google to list them all.<\/p>\n When it comes to touristic websites, my favourite abomination is Wikitravel<\/a> which has a page devoted to all those many West Kootenays, but none for the one that actually exists: the West Kootenay. I attach a screen shot of the upper portion of that page. I particular enjoy the unidiomatic first sentence: plural subject, singular verb, missing preposition. (The same site has a page devoted to the East Kootenays).<\/p>\n Within all of this promotional nonsense, there does not appear to be any hint of purposeful deception\u2014just incompetence.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am enthusiastic about this region\u2014something clearly shown by\u00a0this website and blog. So, I am unenthusiastic about regional promoters who misrepresent us. There seems to be streak of incompetence that runs through local tourism promoters. What else are you going … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wikitravelWKS110705.jpg\")
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