Ottawa-Gatineau Tourism

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Originally Posted by GeoNerd

Yikes, again some posters life's sounds kind of miserable and lame on here, if that's how they view this city. If you're comparing Canada's national museums to the Louvre, British Museum or the Guggenheim, yeah of course they aren't as good. Those are arguably the best museums on the planet. I wasn't comparing Ottawa to major world destinations. I was comparing it to other Canadian destinations. Try visiting Edmonton, Calgary, Victoria, Winnipeg, Quebec City, or Halifax, for a week, then you'll appreciate how great a destination Ottawa is. The only good thing about Calgary is leaving Calgary to go somewhere else. Quebec City could put you to sleep after about 5 hours there. The other cities are about as equally interesting for a few hours. The main advantage that Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto, have are their size. But try comparing their museums (or lack of) to the Louvre, British Museum or the Guggenheim and you'll really be laughing.

Ottawa does need to do a better job with it's tourism attractions, but to say its some sleepy dot on the map not worth visiting amongst other Canadian cities is categorically incorrect.

I feel you fail to recognize my point. Comparing Ottawa to Saskatoon or Regina or Quebec City or Winnipeg is intellectually lazy. They probably have fewer foreign tourists than we do. For sure we have more to offer than those places but stating that won’t bring more tourists to Ottawa.
And why can’t we have a Guggenheim or Louvres in the Capital? Why not?