Chatham-Kent Council is about to get a lesson on the $64 million native tourism business.
An replace on the CK tourism sector is about for the Council assembly Monday night time to element initiatives to assist the native tourism business and to stipulate helps supplied by Chatham-Kent Tourism to sector operators in 2024 together with key tourism traits.
CK Supervisor of Tourism Growth Shannon Paiva is reporting tourism spending is up, however so are employment vacancies within the tourism business.
Statistics Canada mentioned tourism spending in Canada grew 0.7 per cent within the second quarter of 2024, following a 1.4 per cent improve within the first quarter as each worldwide and home tourism spending elevated.
In 2023, tourism spending rose 13.5 per cent after a rise of fifty.4 per cent in 2022, based on the statistics.
Paiva mentioned Chatham-Kent tourism operators reported having issue attracting and retaining employees within the tourism and hospitality sector, typically leaving them challenged to function constant enterprise hours.
She additionally famous an absence of lodge house continues to be a problem as Chatham-Kent grows in inhabitants and brings in visiting mates and family to the numerous festivals, occasions, and tourism websites.
Environics analytics supplied by the Southwest Ontario Tourism Company present Canadians logged 610,930 journeys to Chatham-Kent in 2023 with a mean keep of two.3 nights per journey. The numbers present 92 per cent of these journeys had been made by Ontarians, which is down 13.6 per cent from 2022. Nonetheless, the municipality is on observe to see a 1.4 per cent improve in 2024.
Throughout the identical time, Individuals logged 112,748 journeys to Chatham-Kent with a mean keep of three.2 nights per journey, which is an extended keep than normal.
August and July are the busiest months for journeys to Chatham-Kent with the annual return of summer season occasions and festivals, adopted by December for Canadians and October for Individuals, based on Environics.
