Out &
About

Plane due

to arrive

HAWKAIR AVIATION
Services is expecting its
Dash 8 passenger aircraft
to be here by the end of
this week.

Company official Rod
Hayward flew to St. John’s
Newfoundland for the final
inspection and hand-over
of the leased aircraft late
last week,

If all goes according to
.plan, the company plans
on beginning its Terrace-
Vancouver service in early
September.

On board

A B.C. Assessment Au-
thority official from Ter-
race has been named to
the 16-member board of
the Real Estate Insitute of
B.C. for a two-year term.

Charles Johnstone will
represent the
Cariboo/North West Prince
Rupert district.

The institute seeks to
increase educational and
other standards connected
to the real estate industry,

Bradley Lane and
Tracy Wall from the B.C.
Assessment Authority in
Terrace and Karen Wal-

die from GHW Appraisals:
were:

Northwest Ltd.
named directors to the
Cariboo/Northwest Prince
Rupert chapters of the in-
stitute,

Directory
updated

THE TERRACE Home
Based Business Associa-

tion is updating its direc-
twed “titer” 2000 “tourist ‘season

tory as part-of a‘ renewed
effort to represent and ass~
ist home-based businesses
here.

As well, it is regearch-
ing various government
programs which could ass-
ist home-based businesses.
And it is planning’ a home-
based Christmas tour,

The next meeting of the
association is Sept. 20 at
the library, beginning at 7
p.m. For information on the
directory, call Elreen at
635-9415. For other infor-
mation, call Lorraine at
635-9587 or Mary-Anne at
638-0200.

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Business REVIEW

‘TERRACE STANDARD

VISITOR Information counsellor Sandi Harrison tells Laurence and Jean-Jac-
ques Allard of Quebec her suggestions for sight-seeing in Terrace.

Fewer tourists visit

JEAN-JACQUES Allard
and his wife, Laurence, of
St. Eustache, Que., are a
tourism marketer’s dream.

After travelling by RV
to such far-flung destina-
tions as Yellowknife, Inu-
vik, and Skagway, Alaska,
the pair rolled into the
Visitor Info Centre in Ter-
race Aug. 17.

They were looking for
information on Terrace’s
accommodations, sights
and attractions before
catching the Inside Pas-
sage ferry in Prince Rupert
to begin the final leg of
their cross-Canada road
trip and returning home to
Quebec,

The Allards are just two
of the thousands of tourists
from Canada and abroad
who have stopped at Ter-
race’s Visitor Info Centre
this summer.

But although the sum-

started off well here, the
number of visitors is down,
and that has Maria McGo-
wan, coordinator of the
Terrace Tourism Council,
wondering why.

“This year is not as
good as last year,” McGo-
wan said, info centre coor-
dinator. “June and July -
both were bad months.”

The centre recorded
2,706 tourist visits this
July, compared to 3,236 in
1999, a drop of 530.

And it’s not just Ter-
race. Prince Rupert’s
numbers are down, too,

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although the info centre
hasn’t told McGowan by
how much.

Her counterparts in Ha-
zelton, meanwhile, report
the number of tourists
there doubled in May and
June.

“They're
McGowan said.

The 2000 tourist season
is not over yet, but as of
the end of July just 5,537
tourists had stopped at the
Terrace Info Centre since
the beginning of the year.

Back in 1996, the cen-
tre recorded a total of
8,216 visitors, a number
that climbed to 11,607 the
following year, and
jumped to 16,157 in 1998.

But in 1999, the total
number of visitors dropped
to 10,353.

“It certainly makes us
all put our thinking caps
on to see how we can mar-
ket
needs to do more thinking
if this trend continues,”
she said.

She suspects Alaska
and Yukon-bound travell-
ers are stopping in Hazel-
ton before heading north
on Highway 37 at Kitwan-
ga, and giving the rest of
Highway 16 West a miss.

Part of the reason may
be that B.C. Ferry traffic
volumes between Prince
Rupert and Port Hardy
dropped 13 percent this
May and June, when a po-
tential ferry strike loomed.

In addition, a couple of

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the Alaskan ferries were
out of commission for part
of the summer.

But McGowan also
wonders if the northwest,
which Tourism B.C. used
to designate as the North
by Northwest Tourism re-
gion, is bearing the brunt
of a three-year-old North-
ern B.C. Tourism Associa-
tion, which now represents
a whopping 52 percent of
the province as one tour-
ism region.

“It makes it difficult to
market this area,” she
said, adding the assacia-
tian’s head office just
moved from Smithers to
Prince George to be more
centrally located. “So
there you ga.”

Hoping to help make
this region stand out to po-
tential visitors making
travel plans, tourism coun-
cils in the northwest are
beginning 10 Cddrdinaté
their efforts, working’ trade
shows together, and even
pool financial resources,
she says,

“Because we are
unique, We are different.”

Still, McGowan does
have some good news to
report. Terrace’s Visitor
Info Centre just received a
90 percent rating from
Tourism B.C,

More people are turning
to the tourism council’s
website ta plan holidays,
rather than phone for infor-
mation. “Ii’s sure cut our
mailing costs,” she added.

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