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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 […]

Tourism Information Kiosk

Tourist information bureaus were created in many cities and towns to disseminate information to travellers. Almost every town seemed to have a tourist information counter. Today, they are […]

Eleanor Roosevelt Slept Here

Who is the most famous person to have visited the Gaspé? American presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush have fished rivers in the region. So too have members […]

Streamlining Travel

There is an alternative to staying in a hotel. You can bring your home with you. Inspired by the taught skins of airliners, American Wally Byam designed a […]

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 Gaspé Highway – Where Disaster Often Strikes

The Gaspé highway has been the victim of natural disasters ever since it was built. The first disaster to affect the new road occurred in July, 1930 when […]

Building the Roads

The journalists and drivers who drove the Gaspé tour for the first time during the summer of 1929 were generous in their praise. One of them reported: The […]

Out with the Old, in with the New

…its chronic weakness and general decrepitude The bridge over the Metis River was at the end of its life when the new Gaspé highway was built. The local […]