Occasionally Wright: Canada- Now Communist Approved

January 23, 2005

Canada- Now Communist Approved

Looking for a place to spend your next vacation? Come to Canada, an official tourist destination of the Chinese government.

Seriously though, Chinese travellers will now be able to get tourist visas to visit Canada. What does that mean to us? Well, last year we officially had about 77,000 overnight visitors from China. By 2010 they're expected to have 100 million outbound travellers per year. Even if only 1% of them come to Canada that's still more than a ten fold increase in Chinese visitors to our country. That's a lot of extra tourism dollars.

Jan 23, 2005 10:52:55 AM | Television

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