A Taste Of Kelowna Food Tours & Lakeside Eco-Sports today announced they’ve been recognized in consecutive years as Viator Experience Award Winners for Food/Wine/E-Bike Tours in Canada. The two locally owned businesses stood out to travellers and provided exceptional experiences in 2024 & 2025. each winning back-to-back years. Winners are selected based on the quality, and quantity, of their Viator reviews and ratings over a 12-month period.
A Taste Of Kelowna Food Tours opened in July 2021. The Kelowna Cultural District Walking Food Tour covers the history, culture, and local culinary delights that’ve put Kelowna on the International stage.
“I’m humbled to win this award again,” A Taste of Kelowna Food Tours Owner Andrew Deans says. “Born and raised in the Okanagan it brings me joy being able to showcase what I love about Kelowna. Supporting locals is what I’m all about. Thank you to my vendors, and outstanding guests for supporting me.”
Lakeside Eco-Sports was founded in 2022 and offers a host of tours and activities, including the award-winning E-Bike Wine Tour and E-Bike & Gold Panning Expedition.
“We’re honoured to gain this prominent accolade again for appreciation in the quality of our E-Bike Wine Tour with tastings and lunch,” said Lakeside Eco-Sports co-founder Gareth Brown, who owns the company with his wife, Pamela Castillo. “Our staff and partners are happy to share with our gracious guests what we love about Kelowna.”
Viator is the world’s largest travel experiences marketplace with more than 400,000 bookable tours, activities, and excursions. Now in its fourth year, the final rankings for the Viator Experience Awards are based on average review ratings, share of bookings with a review, and number of bookings on the Viator platform over a 12-month period (Jan-Dec 2024). Serving as the hallmark of the best experiences to book across the world, this year’s Viator Experience Awards recognize over 450 experiences, tours, and activities across a number of geographic regions and special interest categories.
