Kathleen Allen

Kathleen Allen, president of the Rockport Boat Line, said the construction is having a devastating effect on the village, which is almost entirely dependent on summer tourism.

"It is totally uncalled for," she said, "and what is worse is that we got no notice that this was going to happen.The only information we have is what we've read in the paper."

Allen said the work is already driving away tourists, and what visitors did pick their way down the street clogged with heavy equipment, flag-people and workers are having a hard time even speaking to the boat line's staff over the noise from the street.

"People come into Rockport and they see the construction signs and the equipment, and it's a big deterrent because they just assume that everything is closed," Allen said.
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"This will be a sidewalk that goes nowhere," said Allen.

As of yesterday morning, the restaurant was empty and the motel had no guests as well, as several tourists had decided to check out on Monday due to the noise, said Turner and Rockport Boat Line president Kathleen Allen.
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Allen said that while there still is business at the boat line, tourists are having a hard time being understood in the ticket office, as employees can barely hear requests over the construction noise.
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However, Allen was told by an engineer from Greer Galloway that there are problems with the current asphalt not being strong enough, and now the entire road must be dug up, possibly extending the work past the three-week mark.
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"At this point, it's going to take up the rest of our tourism season," said Allen.
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Allen and Turner would like to see construction cease for the rest of the summer, and resume in the fall or next spring, when tourism is not so busy.
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"I would prefer that they just stop the construction, and move out all of their equipment so people can get by," said Allen.

Kathleen Allen, president and general manager of Rockport Boat Line, one of ITEC's partners in the Thousand Islands, says she's looking forward to implementing the new technology because it will enhance the tour experience for all her customers.
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"You can imagine it would be difficult to play more than five or six without limiting the amount of information you can share with your customers," Allen says.

The ability to offer tours in several languages broadcast simultaneously gives Rockport Boat Line the ability to expand its commentary and improve the overall tour experience, Allen adds. "It will enhance what we already have."

Words like Allen's are music to Laurin's ears - because, for Laurin and ITEC, enhancing the tourism experience is what their business is all about.

Kathleen Allen, president and general manager of Rockport Boat Line, one of ITEC's partners in the Thousand Islands, says she's looking forward to implementing the new technology because it will enhance the tour experience for all her customers.

Rockport has been using the predecessor technology from NewDAE for several years to translate its tour into 13 languages over the vessel's loudspeaker.

The language-translation technology is crucial to the boatline's success because it caters to many international travellers, she says.

The current loudspeaker system, however, limits the number of languages that can be broadcast on a cruise.

"You can imagine it would be difficult to play more than five or six without limiting the amount of information you can share with your customers," Allen says.

The ability to offer tours in several languages broadcast simultaneously gives Rockport Boat Line the ability to expand its commentary and improve the overall tour experience, Allen adds. "It will enhance what we already have."

Words like Allen's are music to Laurin's ears - because, for Laurin and ITEC, enhancing the tourism experience is what their business is all about.

So is Kathleen Allen, Rockport Boat Line's general manager.As far as she's concerned, Karem made a big mistake.

"I nearly had a heart attack," she said, describing her reaction when she learned about the decision.
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It's also the process that made Kathleen Allen's life just that much more complicated.
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Kathleen Allen wouldn't be pleased.
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Allen might be glad to know that CIRA asked the public if its dispute resolution policy should take both registered and unregistered trademarks into account.
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Now that the dust has settled and Ganonoque Boat Line owns "www.rockportboatline.com," Allen herself has a choice, just like Karem did.Allen can let it be or take Ganonoque Boat Line to court.

She didn't seem pleased with either choice.

"It's our company name," Allen said.

"This new boat allows us to offer a brand new product to individual travellers, as well as our group tour market", says Kathleen Allen, President /General Manager of Rockport Boat Line.

Contact: Kathleen Allen, Rockport Boat Line, 613-659-3402, 800-563-8687
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"This new boat allows us to offer a brand new product to individual travelers, as well as our group tour market," says Kathleen Allen, President/General Manager of Rockport Boat Line.

It's too small, and the waves in Kingston are too high," said Kathleen Allen, president and general manager of Rockport Boat Line, about the Beaver Boat Tours. She also said that the tragedy in Ottawa could affect the licensing of small commercial boats like dive boats, which currently only have boating licences, not commercial ones. While Sunday's accident is the first fatal involving an amphibious vehicle in Canada, there have been several serious accidents with the vessels in the United States. When an amphibious vessel sunk and killed 13 passengers in Hot Springs, Ark., in 1999, the United States Coast Guard warned that the vessels were potentially dangerous. A 1999 coast guard report said "they have features that make them inherently less safe than conventional commercial small passenger vehicles."