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Originally Posted by OTSkyline
I don't know, Truenorth00's comments might have been on the extreme side, but I don't totally disagree with him.
Ottawa is a nice city to live in but it's not that great as a tourist destination and it shows by the amount of tourists either skipping the capital altogether or staying overnight between their Toronto & Montreal visits.
It may be "one of the most visited cities in Canada" but it's probably 5th or 6th, might even be after Niagara Falls and Quebec City, and arguably, as the capital of the country, we should be much more up there.
I like Ottawa and live here, but every time I travel (even within Canada sometimes), I'm unfortunately reminded that Ottawa doesn't have that much cache as a MUST SEE destination. The parliament buildings & canal are cute and we have lots of museums, but that's about it.
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Again 2 things.. obviously my first statement rings true that Ottawa needs to do a better job marketing itself as a destination but most importantly i'm not saying that people need to visit Ottawa for a longer period of time than they should, this is a discussion in the airport thread, i'm talking about having Ottawa playing a larger part due to it's location as opposed to using that narrative as a disadvantage.
We're always talking about he size of Ottawa as a market to support more air connectivity, but if we promote Ottawa as a destination and as a gateway city positionally located that's another tool to help attract more direct routes to and from Ottawa.