A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Tourist increase WIT H THE summer months in full gear, the number of tourists visiting _ Terrace have reached well into’ the . thousands. ‘The month of June saw more tourists drop into the Terrace Visitor Information _. Centre than all the previous _ _, months. in 2005 combined.’ . _ The 1,797 visitors logged .. this June beat out last year’s © \.. June visitors numbers . of 1,151. visitors to the area, topped ~ out at 2,887 tourists and sur- passed last year’ S number of. 2, 385 visitors. ‘The information: centre ‘hasn’ t seen this many visi- tors in .the summer since 1999. . Debbie Simons, manager "of the’ information centre, * said .that increased .market- -ing efforts could be: part of “the reason why Terrace is “seeing so many tourists; the . .,. Terrace. Visitor: Guide was _ - also distributed to every in- formation centre throughout “the province, as’ well as on . «the ferries. ._ Passengers from. the fer- ries pass through Terrace and. stop into the centre, and pas- sengers who discover wait lists for the ferries in Prince Rupert may ‘choose to stayin Terrace and explore the area- for a while. Simons ‘adds that after people visit here, - they tend to come back. With trips up to Stewart and Cassiar, or.visits to: the _ lava beds in the Nass Valley, “peopleare stopping at the - ‘visitor centre to plan their — trips and get more informa- tion on the area. -The number of European “s, travellérs stopping in Ter- __.Yace has also.grown larger. ~ From front: Loe _ Soc keye . catch cut “Most out-of-towners are generally after spring, ‘but — they’re.; just. happy:.to. land: any, type of ‘salmon,” says. ' Sam Bedford, adding cus- _ tomers have not been disap- pointed. Groves says the restric- tion was imposed based on two things: the low daily and weekly monitoring numbers "and the fact First Nations are . also having difficulty reach- ing their food, social and ceremonial fish targets. “The feedback we're getting from. First Nations: (fishers) is that they’re put- ting in a lot of effort for a _ small number of fish,” says ; Groves. i This year also marks the _first time since 1998 that the commercial fishing of sock- eye has been closed | on the ’ Skeena. : From front _up_ date through the business com-~ District Chamber of Com- . Sawmill to open | TLC is owned by a’group . of local investors and made the purchase this February.. News of the mill’s_ start- spread quickly munity last week. _ “I think that’s awesome,” says John Taylor, executive director of the Terrace and merce. “They are getting people -back to work.” ‘The opening is one more. sign of good things to come . in the years ahead, he says. “It’s nothing but a bright- er future for tomorrow not -only with TLC but with the’ container port and oil and gas,” Taylor says, adding ‘businesses that have been able to keep their doors open . over the past five years are proving there’s reason to be. optimistic about the region’s economy. -“Pm really proud of the businesses that have been able to weather the storm for the past five years and man- aged to keep slugging,” he says. - Meanwhile, the city is to receive.-a financial benefit from other sales connected to the disposal of other New Skeena assets. 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