Sunday, December 27, 2009

the golf tour event at Dakota Dunes

Even though, economically, 2009 was a challenging year for some, tourism in Saskatoon had many success stories.

Todd Brandt says a newer festival in the city, the Fireworks Festival, was a huge success and the weather cooperated.

Unfortunately that was not the case for the Cameco Canada Remembers Air Show, which was cursed with excessive rain.

Brandt adds that convention activity was steady and the summer months had the usual strong line-up including the Children's Festival, Folkfest, and the Jazz Festival.

He lists the B-MO Canadian Figure Skating Championships, the golf tour event at Dakota Dunes, NASCAR at Auto Clearing Motor Speedway and the World Junior Hockey Championships as sporting highlights for 2009 in Saskatoon.

Doing some number crunching of various events, Brandt says something like the World Junior Hockey Championships will have an economic impact of 44-million dollars in the province, but even a smaller event could bring in anywhere from 400-thousand to a million dollars in activity to the city.

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