Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will be pleased to work with the Member as well as the Minister responsible for marketing of tourism in the Northwest Territories, to look at how we are doing and whether we can do a better job or not and sometimes we can do a better job possibly, without spending more dollars. Maybe it is just the way we are doing our marketing. We are doing a fairly good job on marketing. My understanding is tourism numbers are increasing by the year. I see there a lot of down-filled red jackets in Yellowknife throughout the winter months. By talking to those tourist operators and marketing of northern lights, tourism has grown from where it started off at approximately 400 tourists and then it jumped to 1,200. Last year it was 1,800. This year it is 4,000 with a good potential of growing to at least 10,000 tourists a year. Thank you.
Don Morin on Question 423-13(5): Support For The Tourism Industry
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 423-13(5): Support For The Tourism Industry
Question 423-13(5): Support For The Tourism Industry
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 23rd, 1998
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
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