2025 Good Cheer Trail Renewal
Dear Good Cheer Trail participants,
We are so excited to be preparing for the 2025 Good Cheer Trail. Coming into it’s tenth year, the Good Cheer Trail will continue to offer locals and travellers a fun, engaging tool to eat and drink their way across our province.
The Good Cheer Trail continues to get provincial, national, and international attention as a best practice in culinary tourism product development.
Plans for the 2025 season include:
- Mobile App – Our iPhone and Android friendly mobile app is free for consumers to download, and will allow travellers the opportunity to explore our province’s food and drink products and experiences from the palm of their hand.
- The Taste of Nova Scotia mobile app houses the three culinary trails – Good Cheer, Chowder and Lobster Trail – with digital passports, stamps, business listings, mapping, prizing, and more.
- We will once again be doing a media campaign to promote the app. Stay tuned for more information!
- Printed passports – we are pleased to continue doing a print run of the Good Cheer Trail passport, as we continue to hear from trail stops and consumers that it’s a valuable part of the trail.
- Passport stamps, stands, participant t-shirts, and signage.
- Ongoing marketing campaign, including print, digital, social, media relations, and more.
- In partnership with Tourism Nova Scotia, we ran another digital media campaign last fall that promoted the three culinary trails to locals (Nova Scotians) and folks intending to travel here from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The campaign promoted the trails through social media ads, video ads on Youtube and display ads on Google. This campaign served over 11 million impressions and drove over 100,000 ad clicks. In each of the three tactics, the campaign results exceeded industry standards.
- The culinary trails were also a key part of the Taste of Nova Scotia Mobile App media campaign that we ran last fall. This campaign prompted installation and use of the app as a tool for locals and tourists alike to eat, drink and explore their way across Nova Scotia, and was targeted to residents of Atlantic Canada. This campaign included social ads, display and text search ads, digital billboards, print ads and paid partnerships with The Coast and Seasoned Plate. This campaign served over 16 million digital impressions and helped propel our total app installs to over 9,000.
- We will be running more campaigns to promote the culinary trails this season; stay tuned for more information!
- Enhanced passport incentive program, including t-shirts for all three trails and an incredible grand prize.
- Three ways to stamp your passport.
- Consumers will be able to stamp their Good Cheer Trail passport in three easy ways – printed passport, mobile app digital passport, and website remote check-in.
Participant Fees:
- Non-Taste of Nova Scotia Members: Participation fees in the Good Cheer Trail will remain at $250 + HST.
- Taste of Nova Scotia member rate: Participation fees for businesses that are also Taste members is $150 + HST per trail.
2025 Good Cheer Trail participation fees can be paid by credit card or by cheque made payable to Taste of Nova Scotia. Payment plan options are also available if requested. For businesses wishing to set up payment plan options or pay by credit card, please contact Brenda Wilson.
Prizing & Contesting:
- T-Shirts – we will continue to offer the ever-popular consumer t-shirt incentive for those who achieve a certain number of stamps.
- Grand Prize – We will continue to offer at least three grand prize draws.
- If you are interested in donating a prize for social media contesting purposes, please let us know.
If you have any questions about the upcoming culinary trails program, please contact Brenda Wilson at taste@tasteofnovascotia.com. Please note, the deadline for renewal is Monday, March 25, 2025.
Thank you,
Taste of Nova Scotia