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Travellers to Canada’s National Parks and Historic Sites will continue to enjoy low entry fee prices until 2011 thanks to a fee freeze from the Conservative government. This will allow more families to enjoy Canada’s natural splendor, and will provide a needed boost to our tourism industry.
More families from our community will be able to enjoy the pristine beauty of our National Parks and our Historic Sites and at the same time, this will provide a needed boost to our hospitality industry. Keeping the price of tourism in Canada low will encourage more Canadians to vacation here at home, rather than travelling abroad.
For individual travellers, the 2008 rates will stay in place until April 1, 2011. For tour groups and tour organizers that deal in group rates, the 2009 rates now in effect will be frozen until April 1, 2012.
At the same time, we are undertaking a new advertising campaign to promote Canada’s National Parks and Historic Sites on television and on the Internet.
Parks Canada is using several new tools this year to develop exciting and expanded programs. From coast to coast Canadians can participate in more activities like:
- Extended programs, to provide opportunities during high visit periods in spring and fall
- Elk viewing opportunities during the fall rut, in partnership with the Wildlife Festival
- Better opportunities to learn about ecological integrity and species at risk, including Bolander’s Quillwort and White Bark Pine
- New programming highlighting connections between the First Oil Well in Western Canada National Historic Site, the Prince of Wales Hotel National Historic Site, and the Community of Waterton
- Through street theatre at the Calgary Zoo, the troupe will demonstrate how wildlife crossing structures in Banff National Park benefit both people and wildlife
- New short plays at Calgary’s Heritage Park hearken back to 1909 – the year the Spiral Tunnels opened, the Burgess Shale was discovered, and “Fire and Game Guardians” were first hired
- Fish Creek Provincial Park will host weekly presentations of “Water…on the Rocks!”, a family-friendly play about water in Rocky Mountain national parks
During these challenging economic times, our Conservative government is encouraging Canadians to enjoy the great outdoors. For many families every dollar counts, so we are freezing entry fees to Canada’s National Parks and Historic Sites for the next two years.
For more information on these and other Parks Canada programs as well as a list of entry fees please visit www.pc.gc.ca
