Industry News
Ottawa International Children’s Festival faces a make-or-break year →
Peter Robb, Ottawa Citizen | Children’s theatre has never been the most lucrative field of entertainment endeavour, but there is little doubt about its power to excite, amuse and engage young audiences. The Ottawa International Children’s ... read more »
Bluesfest gets its own pizza … and it’s for a good cause →
Lynn Saxberg, Ottawa Citizen | Two Ottawa institutions, Bluesfest and Gabriel Pizza, are joining forces under a tasty sponsorship arrangement that has a charitable side effect. RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest announced a deal with the Ottawa-area pizza ... read more »
Ottawa Police, DND train ahead of Race Weekend →
Ottawa Citizen | Ford said Ottawa police, paramedics, fire services and National Defence will try to extract lessons from the exercise and incorporate them into future practices and training. Meantime, the focus now shifts to Ottawa’s Race ... read more »
Sparks Street brings Sens Square back for round 2 of the NHL Playoffs
[Press Release] Sparks Street and 3 Brewers to air all Ottawa Senators games on the big screen at Sens Square (Ottawa, ON) - Sparks Street, in partnership with 3 Brewers, Liverpool Court and GoodLife Fitness, is bringing the big screen back ... read more »
Food truck scene puts Ottawa on the map “in a very big way,” says Eat St. host
Graham Lanktree, Metro News | New food trucks and carts have proved a wild success in Ottawa on the first day offering up their eats as 525 bracelets to get samples at the Street Food Showcase sold out and large lines snaked around the lawn of city ... read more »
Doors Open Ottawa announces participating buildings
Maria Cook, Ottawa Citizen | OTTAWA — From the outside, the Mayfair Theatre on Bank Street isn’t much, admits co-owner Lee Demarbre. However, on the inside, Ottawa’s oldest movie house is a “cinema cathedral,” designed to evoke the ... read more »
Convention Centre meant $100M for local economy in full first year, report says
Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen | OTTAWA — The Ottawa Convention Centre pumped more than $100 million into the local economy in its first full year of operation, says an economic impact report to be released Monday.
Canada simply gives up competing for the American tourist
Curtis Rush, The Star | Ottawa no longer wants to waste time and money trying to lure American tourists to the land of moose, mountains and Mounties. According to a new report, the U.S. has become one of Canada’s poorest performing tourism ... read more »
14 ways to make Ottawa a top tourism destination
Mark Sutcliffe, Ottawa Citizen | OTTAWA — Some people seem to think the conversation about how to improve Ottawa as a destination for tourists, business visitors and residents should last years, if not decades. I don’t think it’s that ... read more »
Assessing the impact on Ottawa’s economy
Courtney Symons, Ottawa Business Journal | Associations play such a pivotal role in Ottawa's economy that the local tourism sector will do a song and dance to keep there here, sometimes literally.
