A look at the cruise destinations competing with the St. Lawrence

Written by: Audray Lemieux on 12 July, 2010

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The St. Lawrence River is still a relatively new destination on the North American cruise market. Recent federal and provincial spending on ports of call has helped upgrade reception facilities and improve the quality of the visitor experience. In this highly competitive industry, where a single cruise ship call can generate thousands of dollars as [...]

Whale-watching trends: Québec’s position in 2009

Written by: Julianna Priskin on 6 November, 2009

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Whale watching is still the fastest growing sector of general wildlife tourism worldwide and this is important for Québec, since marine tourism is a lucrative activity. According to a recent report, 13 million people went whale watching in 119 countries in 2008, compared to 9 million in 87 countries in 1998.(1) In the past 10 [...]

A portrait of Québec’s tourism sector in 2009 in its path towards sustainable development

Written by: Julianna Priskin on 14 May, 2009

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The need to develop tourism based on sustainability principles is a part of a general tourism policy framework since 2005 in Québec(1) and most tourism sub-sectors also have set broad objectives based on this basis, including the Ski-doo Federation (2). Although sustainability is well accepted across Québec’s tourism sector, in practice it is not a [...]

American tourists: Where have they gone?

Written by: François-G. Chevrier on 9 January, 2006

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In 2004, Americans once again began travelling to foreign destinations in large numbers, but they seem to have ignored Canada. The number of U.S. international tourists ?all destinations combined ? reached a record high of 61.8 million that year, surpassing the previous record set in 2000. And yet, since the new millennium, Canada has noted [...]







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