Yorkton鈥檚 motto is Where Good Things Happen! And as we continue through the summer season, more and more tourists from all around the world are visiting. The tourism industry continues to be an important economic factor for Yorkton, with 38.1 million spent directly in the Yorkton constituency by visitors to the region.
Every year, Tourism Yorkton keeps a tally of all the people that come into the city as visitors, so that the people of the City of Yorkton can have a better idea about who is coming into our city and why.
This year, Yorkton has had an impressive amount of visitors in May and June. 679 came from within Canada and 61 came from the United States and elsewhere in the world, for a grand total of 740 visitors in these two months alone.
Some interesting facts about our visitors in May and June:
Over half of our visitors came from Eastern Canada.
Almost 20 per cent of our visitors came from within Saskatchewan.
Prince Edward Island had the least amount of visitors at 5, but nearby Nova Scotia had 56!
The furthest anyone travelled to come and see us were Australians that travelled over 13,000 kilometers!
Visitors also had some positive things to say about the city when they came into our Visitor Information Centre:
鈥淕roovy鈥�-Dawn H. Winnipeg, MB
鈥淕reat People, Very Nice Centre鈥�- Claude, Montr茅al, Qu茅
鈥淣ice spot over here!鈥漌im and Ria, Drachten, Netherlands
鈥淣ever in a hurry to leave the prairies!鈥�-Andr茅e, Victoria, BC
鈥淔antastic鈥�- David, Cardiff, Wales
鈥淏eautiful, love the flowers!鈥�- John, Alberta
鈥淏eautiful province鈥�- Raymond, Halifax, NS
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