National Tourism Week re-welcomes travellers worldwide

Ottawa – Canada’s National Tourism Week is emphasizing re-welcoming travellers with its theme of “Travel now. For work, life, and play!”

It will run until June 4.

Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance Randy Boissonnault, president and CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada Beth Potter, and the Parliamentary Tourism Caucus officially launched National Tourism Week at a press conference in the nation’s capital.

For more than 10 years, Tourism Week has been presented by TIAC to encourage all tourism partners to come together to celebrate tourism as vital to the Canadian economy.

The seven-day awareness campaign invites private- and public-sector partners in Canada to promote Canadian tourism destinations, businesses and employees.

This year’s theme of “Travel now. For work, life, and play!” has been chosen to emphasize that tourism in Canada is open for business and ready to safely re-welcome travellers from all over the world, whether for pleasure or business.