Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member has already referenced the Tourism Diversification Marketing Program and I guess for some time we’ve realized that the trends with regard to tourism have been changing and the demand for consumptive tourism has been moving more into the areas of ecotourism and adventure tourism. We developed a marketing program that we spent about $5 million over the past four years so that existing operators can develop new products and look at other opportunities. We have met with the barren-ground outfitters and they said that basically they couldn’t really use that program, although some of them had applied for it. We found more funding and developed a program specifically for the Sport Outfitter Marketing Program so that we can deal with them and their declining populations.
Bob McLeod on Question 347-16(5): Caribou Outfitter Supports
In the Legislative Assembly on November 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.
Question 347-16(5): Caribou Outfitter Supports
Oral Questions (Reversion)
November 3rd, 2010
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