Past Issues

Marketing & Sales

Events contribute to strong Manitoba performance

According to information from Travel Manitoba, that province's  tourism industry was reporting strong performance as the summer season drew to a close. The hotels and accommodations ...Full Story

Quebec cashes in on events, campaign tactics

Tourisme Québec's advertising and promotional partnerships manager is Gilles Parent, and these days he takes some pleasure from looking at the numbers racked up by Tourisme ...Full Story

Ontario navigates successfully through troubled waters

“The hard numbers will prove how we did in the end,” comments Robin Garrett, president and CEO of the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership (OTMP). ...Full Story

Domestic market: inexorable growth in Vancouver

Domestic tourism activity is coloured with relentless optimism in Canada’s western-most metropolis, according to Tourism Vancouver’s VP of leisure travel and ...Full Story

Saskatoon growth paying off for tourism

Randy Fernets is upbeat when he talks about the tourism industry in Saskatoon in the summer of 2007. Fernets, director of corporate development & visitor services at Tourism Saskatoon, ...Full Story

Domestic market: a view from Nunavut

Besides the Northwest Territories, no other provincial or territorial destination shares Nunavut’s predicament, argues Brian Webb, Nunavut Tourism’s director of ...Full Story

The Alberta factor

Derek Coke-Kerr is managing director of Travel Alberta. Always accessible and candid in his analysis, here is what he sees happening in “Wild Rose Country” when it ...Full Story

“Stay-at-home” campaigns cut both ways

Quebeckers have long enjoyed a special relationship with Prince Edward Island, and generations of them have made the iconic Canadian island destination a perpetual favorite for family holidays. ...Full Story

Adventure, touring and MC&IT are Yukon's strengths

Pierre Germain will be the first to admit Yukon benefits from an unusual set of circumstances when it comes to the impact of the Canada's strong dollar on US visitation. Germain, director of tourism ...Full Story