The County is seeing fewer visitors, but those that come enjoy longer stays, and spend more money. A lot more. The shifts point to a County that is cultivating a well-heeled, and loyal clientele.
The Community Services, Programs and Initiatives department has, together with the County Arts Council and The County Foundation, devised a plan to direct a portion of the municipality’s tourism revenues to fostering the arts. The plan makes perfect sense. Our arts organizations not only make this a flourishing, vibrant and utterly unique place to live, but draw great quantities of high-spending visitors.
Fledgling tourist organization focuses on local initiatives — and gets the word out
The past couple of weeks have seen a conjunction of events one step away from connecting. It’s as though the planets are aligning.
Annual Presentation from Visit the County shifts the lens to the local initiatives that animate County life — and draw local visitors
My favourite editorial this past year was about the history of tourism in the County. We called it, fancifully, “This Pleasured Isle, this Green and Storied Place,” (Aug. 10, 2023). We were trying to give a sense of summers long past. I asked Chris if we could do a Part II — more steamboats, more stories of picknicking in the grass, maybe some parasols. “There isn’t any more,” he said. “After the steamboats, it’s all about the cars.”
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