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Destination Northern Ontario is the largest of 13 Regional Tourism Organizations (RTOs) funded by the Ontario Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries. We coordinate, align, and invest in sub-regional programs and lead in identified pan-northern management functions.
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Destination Northern Ontario and partners take home five Tourism Resiliency Awards in Ottawa
On Wednesday, October 27th, as many as 700 tourism professionals and operators took part in the Ontario Tourism Summit’s annual awards gala (virtually and in person) where the best and brightest from across the province are celebrated for their achievements in the tourism industry. Northern Ontario showed up in multiple award categories, winning in eight.…
Read MoreA Look at Investing in Northern Ontario’s Tourism Businesses
With Ontario seeing a proverbial ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ to the pandemic lockdowns that have come to define the first years of the 2020s, people are turning attention to new opportunities and looking towards potentially savvy investments. This is particularly true of the tourism sector, as we see the effects of the…
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