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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-08-09, Page 18PAGE 6A-GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9 , 1979 We reserve the right to limit quantities to normal Family requirements! Tourist promotion must not be cut BY JACK RIDDELL, MPP A' year has passed since the publication of the report of the Liberal T ask Force on Tourism, and it is ,interesting to compare our r,epornmendations and the developments which have taken place. With the growth rate in the tourism industry globally and the current intense competition for the tourist dollar, we cannot afford to allow our promotional efforts to lag. In May, 1978, we recommended that, since tourist operators had the best" idea of where their clients originated and what they were seeking, the increase of $3 million in the government's advertising budget be allocated to local tourist organizations, permitting individual operators to have a greater say in provincial advertising decisions. We also recommended that the province make available promotional material and road maps for tourist operators intending to set up booths at Sportsmen's Shows in the U.S. On March 5 this year, the minister announced a three-part co-operative program to enhance the marketability of resorts., to feature 50 billboards strategically placed in the southern Ontario market, a toll-free telephone line between Toronto and Orillia, for reservation information and an attractive sales brochure featuring our resorts, to be distributed to travel agents in Ontario and the States.• ... E.xcessive gas prices at expressway service centres were a major cause of. complaint, our Task Force found, and we recommended . that the .government prepare charts giving conversion tables for our gallon and the U.S. gallon to . be distributed to these service centres: On March 5, '79, • the government announced a program to correept an American misconception by placing special stickers on service centre gas purnps on Highways 400 and 401 to show the difference between the Canadian imperial gallop., and die U.S. gallon in size and price. We advocated con- tinuation of the sales tax' •suspension on ac- commodation while we try to reduce our travel deficit; in the budget brought down almost a year later such an ex- tension .w asannounced. In October '78, we asked the minister to promote the fact that out - of -province tourists are exempt from retail sales tax if purchases are taken out of province within 30 days, as a stimulus to retail sales. On March 5 this year the government announced they would be aetively selling the sales tax rebate form, distributing it to all "We Treat You Royally" participants and through . all Ontario' Government information centres. We recommended in May '78 that the province examine the information ' booths which welcome tourists to Ontario, upgrading the "facilities. In March '79 the government announced that our Tourist Infor- mation Centres were simply not good enough - and they were looking at the centres with a view to upgrading them sub- stantially. On May 10, the government announced the construction of a .. $350;000 travel in- formation centre at Fort Erie as the first of four new -style centres and the Minister stated his in- tention of upgrading all the .province's in- formation centres during the next 4-5 years. Conventions being an Turn to page 7A • Prices effective thru Saturday, August 11th, 1979. NOW OPEN SATURDAYS AT 8.00 A.M. FOR YOUR SHOPPING CONVENIENCE. 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