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Billboard Tourism

There is often a forest of billboards at the entrance to many cities and towns. On many scenic routes, billboards have vanished, banned by cities and towns to […]

A Photographer’s Paradise

Today, everyone is a photographer. The advent of digital photography and a camera on every telephone has made a photo device the companion of every traveller. In yesteryear, […]

Creating a New Tourism Economy

The Bureau d’aménagement de l’est du Québec (BAEQ) was created in 1963 to set new directions for eastern Quebec. Teams of bureaucrats and consultants brought their expertise to […]

A Guild to Promote Handicrafts

A movement to promote handicrafts took hold in Quebec in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Anthropologist Marius Barbeau inventoried craftsmen and women throughout the province and organized exhibitions to […]

Roadside Souvenirs

Selling handicrafts and woven goods was an important source of income for many families along the Gaspé coast. They were made by women during the dark winter months […]

Key Selling Points

What were the key selling points for hotels and operators in the Gaspé? Was it price, comfort, hot running water or proximity to the seashore? None of the […]

Gaspé Tours – Custom Travel to See the Gaspé in Four Days

There was a time when Quebec had a fully integrated transportation system – when the automobiles and trains worked in close collaboration to move tourists from one point […]

Gaspé…..Destination for Americans

The Gaspé region became a popular place for Americans to visit. It attracted the famous and the less famous, the rich and the middle-class. The proof that the […]

The Guidebook – A Bible for Tourists

Government has played a major role in promoting tourism in Quebec. With a large number of small operators, government became the key actor in choosing images and selecting […]

Travel Intentions – the Science of Predicting Tourism and Travel

The annual poll announcing the travel intentions of Quebec travellers has been a spring ritual for decades. The Ministère du tourisme releases data that predicts which regions of […]

Tour of the Gaspésie

“We can repair all your troubles” was the slogan for the Garage P.B. Dubé in Port-Daniel Est, an important claim in a region that still had few garages […]

The Good Roads Movement

The Good Roads Movement pushed the government of Quebec to invest in its road network. Born in the 1870s in the United States to encourage local, state and […]