Among the cathedrals of Barcelona and the cherry blossoms of Kyoto, a northern Manitoba town has cracked Time magazine’s World’s Greatest Places of 2023 list.
Churchill, Man. was chosen as one of 50 extraordinary destinations to explore, with the magazine praising its polar bear and beluga whale sightings, and optimal viewing of aurora borealis.
“Winter aurora-hunting has opened up a whole new tourist season in a town that has traditionally attracted the vast majority of its visitors during the fall polar bear migration,” Nicholas Derenzo writes in the magazine.
globalnews.ca Jul 31, 2020 — Churchill is Manitoba's most popular northern destination for attracting visitors. Every year, 530,000 people travel to Northern Manitoba.