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New Grand Canyon service launched
30 August 2007

A new service transporting tourists from surrounding US cities into the Grand Canyon, one of the most awe inspiring displays of the power of nature, has been announced this week.

The Grand Canyon Resort Corporation (GCRC), which is owned by the Hualapai Tribe, said that the service would offer direct flights from local cities including Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas and San Diego, for up to 30 passengers at a time.

Sheri Yellowhawk, chief executive of the organisation, said: "This new group service is great news for Grand Canyon West and the Hualapai nation. It will open up new opportunities for business as well as bringing huge benefits to the surrounding communities."

Visitors will also be able to take advantage of wagon and horseback rides through the canyon, as well as visiting the Hualapai village.

The Hualapai are a native people, once of hunter-gatherers, from the Southwest of America and once occupied an area of more than 5m acres. Although they were primarily nomadic, they would build simple thatched brush houses for shade in the summer and mud-plastered huts in the winter.

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