Canada Expanding Tourism Focus Toward U.S.

Canada is expanding its tourism focus toward the United States, fourteen years after 9/11 chilled American travel northward.

Tourism Minister Maxime Bernier said in early April that the timing is right to entice more U.S. travelers to come to Canada. "One factor is the situation of the Canadian dollar. That will help to convince Americans to come here to Canada," he told a crowd of reporters as he announced the results of a strong 2014 tourism year.

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Photo courtesy of Albert Normandin Tourism BC.