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COOL RUNNINGS 2: JAMAICAN OPERATOR TO START DOGSLED TOURS
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Travel Weekly
May 8, 2006

Here are the ingredients for a true, only-in-Jamaica story: abandoned dogs, a Jamaican tour operator with a vision, a sled-dog championship in Scotland, Jimmy Buffett, Chris Blackwell and an international film festival.

The story began last year, when Danny Melville, founder and chairman of Chukka Caribbean Adventures in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, was in Edmonton, Alberta, on a scouting expedition for custom-made dune buggies to use in one of his firm’s new tours.

He spotted an odd-looking dogsled -- and a light bulb went on.

“It turns out that the sled was designed for dry-land racing,” said Melville. “I was told that in Scotland they used the sleds for tourists, and I felt that if they could do it in Scotland, we could do it in Jamaica.”

Melville’s next stop: Scotland’s Loch Ness region, where he met with Alan Stewart, chairman of the Cairngorm Sled-Dog Adventure Co....

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