Post by
sthinei on Apr 05, 2021 5:00pm
Need to get damn border open again
Lost out on so much sales with all the tourists that visit Canada. Previously assisted in managing ontario tourism account. In 2019 canada had 22 million visitors. 15 million from the US alone. That is crazy when you consider we only have 33 million people here. Last year huge amount of sales missed out on from visitors to Ontario summer events that regularly attract over 1 million people. Last year it was during a time when marijuana was not legal in NYC, Michigan, Illinois etc...Shane to have missed oUT on all those tourist dollars. We would have been like the Amsterdam of NA. Industry will still benefit from tourism when border opens up. Illinois legal industry fairly new and they selling 108 million worth of rec cannabis compared to about 90 million in Ontario and we have about 2 million more people. They sure do like their weed south of the border.
Comment by
stocktracker101 on Apr 05, 2021 5:29pm
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Comment by
sthinei on Apr 05, 2021 6:05pm
Thanks for the correction. I was pulling that number out of my memory and I last worked on that tourism account in 2012. Still my point is we get visitors over 50% of our population and have missed out on a lot of tourist weed smoking dollars over 2020 and 2021. A shame.
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