Statement by Minister Boissonnault marking Tourism Week 2022
The Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Tourism and Affiliate Minister of Finance, made the next assertion marking Tourism Week 2022:
“At present, we be part of Canada’s tourism business in celebrating the 2022 version of Tourism Week.
“After greater than two very troublesome years for Canadian tourism, I wish to acknowledge the dedication of tens of 1000’s of tourism companies, vacation spot advertising organizations and neighborhood tourism associations throughout Canada that dug deep when issues had been rocky.
“It’s due to you, your laborious work and your resilience that we are able to now say: Canada is able to safely welcome again home and worldwide guests.
“With breathtaking outside adventures-whether it’s whale watching or polar bear excursions in our nationwide parks, fishing within the north or houseboating on the Okanagan-Canada has gentle and wild rural and distant adventures ready for you.
“Guests will possible arrive in certainly one of our wonderful cities, by air or by sea. And these, too, will mesmerize them. With sights and actions like English Bay in Vancouver; the Calgary Stampede; the Artwork Gallery of Saskatoon; the Forks of Winnipeg; the Outdated Port of Montréal; RisePEI and its exceptional hospitality; the infinite seashores of Prince Edward Island or Prince Edward County; the culinary scene in Toronto; the Edmonton Folks Music Pageant; and even kissing a cod in St John’s, Canada will give its guests tales tall and small to final a lifetime. And every of those cities, and so many different communities, are able to host their conferences and enterprise occasions.
“As we stroll the trail of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, we see tourism as reconciliation in motion. With experiences like visiting Wendake lodge in Quebec or Métis Crossing in Alberta, or assembly Indigenous guides in Yukon, the Northwest Territories or Nunavut, we’ll join guests to the land and to the expertise of peoples right here whose collective reminiscence stretches again greater than 10,000 years.
“We all know that tourism is a significant financial driver and certainly one of our nation’s most numerous and inclusive employers. Our tourism business’s restoration is vital to bigger financial and job progress, and the Authorities of Canada continues to assist tourism companies as they transfer from restoration to sustainable progress.
“To take action, we’re going to construct on the muse first laid in 2019, however with a distinctly forward-looking lens: workforce challenges, vacation spot improvement and long-term progress shall be among the many sizzling matters. And we is not going to let pre-pandemic considering form our future.
“This can be a new period. One which calls on us to be daring. To be formidable. To bounce with audacity. And that’s the reason we’re refreshing the federal tourism progress technique in order that we are able to meet our challenges head on.
“Earlier this month, I launched consultations for Canada’s new post-pandemic Federal Tourism Progress Technique. Collectively, Canadian tourism companies and all orders of the federal government will work collectively to design the blueprint for progress, funding and stability. You may ship your feedback to the contact listed on the New Federal Tourism Growth Strategy web page.
“By designing the plan for the way forward for Canadian tourism, I do know, no doubt, that we are able to appeal to the kind of guests who will wish to preserve coming again to Canada. We’ll persuade households, in addition to company and enterprise travellers, to remain a bit of longer, rekindling our company and incentive journey financial system. We’ll work with personal sector companions to put money into each our iconic and our undiscovered vacationer attraction gems.
“This Tourism Week, let’s decide to rebuild, get well and reclaim our customer financial system, from coast to coast to coast.”
