Thursday, March 4, 2010

Sunset Country Frustrated


A northern Ontario tourism official is frustrated with the McGuinty government's new tourism regions.

Gerry Cariou of the Ontario Sunset Country Travel Association says the huge northern Ontario tourism zone will do more harm than good.

Cariou says they've been tied up in conference calls with bureaucrats from Toronto talking about the new tourism regions, rather than spending time on new marketing initiatives.

"We were going to do a social networking site for northwestern Ontario," says Cariou, "but that's three or four months behind now because of the crap the provincial government is doling out with its regional tourism stuff."

Cariou calls the McGuinty Government the worst government ever for the tourism industry.