VISIT DENVER, the City of Denver’s official tourism sales and marketing agency, have announced that in 2023 Denver welcomed a record 37.4 million domestic visitors, a 3% increase over the previous record set in 2022. This record number of visitors also spent more money in Denver than ever before, generating $10.3 billion in tourism revenue, outpacing last year’s record amount of $9.4 billion by almost 10%.
Canada’s Indigenous Tourism Groups to Downsize
12.07.2024 - 21:22 / skift.com / Dawit Habtemariam
Canada’s Indigenous tourism groups are about to face a wave of layoffs and funding cuts in coming months.
The Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) is scaling down funding programs that support 10 provincial First Nations tourism bodies.
“Three to five I estimate probably won’t survive very long unless other funding comes in from somewhere else,” said Keith Henry, CEO of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada.
The association worked with a budget of $15 million last year, with $10.5 million coming from various federal programs. This year, the government scaled back funding to $6.5 million.
ITAC’s staff of 40 will be cut by half by September. “ITAC won’t disappear, but it’ll feel like we started like 10 years ago with a handful of staff and some policy people and just trying to advocate,” said Henry.
Canada’s tourism industry has been shrinking. About 20% of businesses are struggling to pay back their pandemic relief loans to the federal government. “There were about 1.5% fewer tourism businesses in Canada in 2023 than in 2019, which speaks to the impact,” Destination Canada CEO Marsha Walden told Skift in April.
Over the past few years, Indigenous tourism has become an increasingly popular attraction in Canada. About 40% of Americans say they’d like to have an Indigenous tourism experience, Walden said.
ITAC’s goal is to grow Indigenous tourism into a $ 6 billion industry by 2030. Henry isn’t changing that goal.
“I still believe we’re the right organization and right set of networks to help that,” he said. “It’s just a wait and see if we can find our way to triage through this mess right now.”
Despite their financial troubles, Henry said ITAC isn’t cutting back its investment in the newly formed Destination Original International Tourism, a global body that will promote and advocate Indigenous tourism.
In February, the heads of national tourism groups in Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand announced the formation of the association at the International Indigenous Tourism Conference in Ottawa, Canada.
“We’re still trying to get that going by October,” he said. “That’s our goal.”
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