The royal visit brings in a surge in Alberta tourism
The tourism industry in Alberta is seeing an upswing in tourist arrival ever since the snapshots of Will and Kate in white hats became one of the land marks of Alberta tourism. Check out the blog, ripple effects has some amazing snap shots of the royal visit.
The royal visit of the Duke and Duchess has set off an increase in the visitors from the UK. The value of the publicity generated by the royal tour is put at $2 million in China alone. It is still too early to predict the long time effect of this celebrity tag. However more than half of Alberta's recorded 23 million tourists were from within the province as people love to stay closer to their ground and enjoy fine camping weather.
The rallying Canadian dollar and the strong oil and gas sector of Alberta has been providing the much needed impetus to business tourism in Alberta. Canada was granted "approved destination status" in China, which allows Alberta to market itself in the booming emerging Chinese economy, which will see a marked rise in the number of Chinese tourists, who form the fastest-growing demographics of Alberta's share of tourist outside the key markets of Canadians, Americans and the British.
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