Kelowna's Juicy Tips

Many of you have followed our weekly video series, The Tour Guru, created in a partnership between Tourism Kelowna and Kelowna.com. Thanks for calling or emailing your ideas to me and for wanting to get involved! We wanted to let you know that we will be taking a break from further episodes until later in [...]

The count down is on! The torch will be arriving in Kelowna at about 5 pm on Monday, January 25 and we are expecting to see a sea of red in City Park – wear your red jackets, red mittens, red toques – anything crimson to show your support. There will be 2 hours of [...]

This is so cool! Have a look at this Bankhead Grade 6 song that has been approved by VANOC to be performed when the torch comes to Kelowna. It gives me chills. Way to go Bankhead and Johnny Vesterinen – you’re so creative!

Get your brooms and rocks ready! We’re very excited to be welcoming some heavy-duty international curling talent to Kelowna to train just before the Olympic Games. The Kelowna Curling Club will play host to the Swedish men’s and women’s curling teams while Germany will send its men’s rink to Kelowna from February 6 – 11, [...]

Kelowna now has a new connection with a national women’s hockey team playing in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games… and it isn’t Team Canada. Team Sweden, the women’s hockey team that won silver in the Turin Olympic Games, is now here training for their next great challenge in February 2010.

Did you know that we have over 15 designated beaches in the Kelowna and West Kelowna area? That’s not counting the many small beach accesses that you find scattered throughout residential areas. There are over 30 beaches in the Central Okanagan. This adds up to a whole lot of variety when it comes to one [...]

Interesting story in the Kelowna Capital News recently about the Kelowna roots of the official poster for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralymic Games. The artist/designer of the poster is a Kelowna-native.
Is it just me, or do you agree that the rolling mountains that make an appearance in the poster, along with the deep blue [...]