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Originally Posted by acottawa
I get a sense that there might be a difference between what locals think tourists like and what tourists actually like.
https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attractio...TTRACTION_LIST
Tourists seem to like history and scenery. Locals like to trash talk history and scenery.
Also interesting that CTC with its crappy location still scores higher than local favourites like the Glebe, Lansdowne, the Rideau Centre and the Experimental Farm. |
No one is trash talking. Just pointing out that its all that we have in Ottawa for tourists. This is why the top 10 or 20 on Tripadvisor for Ottawa is museums, parliament, parkway, waterfalls, monuments etc. Ottawa is very saturated with those types of places for tourists, and that's our strength, and rightly so, being the capital of this great country. Moving forward, Devcore's bid would change that situation, by adding some new attractions which we don't have in Ottawa yet. Think of that family with kids. Will the kids look back at their road trip's stop on Ottawa in awe about how amazing the parliament was, or the canal or the war monument or the scenery? I doubt it! Now, add a Ripleys aquarium, and the kids will probably remember that visit! As for a bigger one in Toronto, fine, but who cares? Do you really think that people will visit both and say, ohhh, the Ottawa one sucked in comparison. No, they will visit one of the two. So that argument, whoever made it, is irrelevant.
Is there a tourist card offering in Ottawa like in many other cities? I don't think so. But add the Devcore attractions to whats already on the attraction list in Ottawa, and suddenly the idea of a 1,2 or 3 day tourist card for Ottawa becomes feasible.
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