GN hopes survey will shape future tourism strategy
Deadline to participate is Aug. 28; random prizes will be awarded
Passengers from the cruise ship Silver Endeavour arrive in Kinngait earlier this summer. The Government of Nunavut is conducting a survey, asking Nunavummiut and non-residents their opinions about tourism in order to develop a new tourism strategy for the territory. (File photo by Arty Sarikisian)
The deadline is approaching for Nunavummiut to share their thoughts on tourism and help shape the future of that industry across the territory.
The Department of Economic Development and Transportation initiated a survey on July 16 asking residents, non-residents and visitors to Nunavut to take part anonymously and provide opinions that will help inform the next tourism strategy for the Government of Nunavut.
The deadline to complete it is Aug. 28.
“The GN is hoping to collect any comments, concerns, ideas from Nunavummiut regarding tourism in Nunavut, which will help build the next territorial tourism strategy,” said Weichien Chan, communications manager for the department, in an email to Nunatsiaq News.
The 19 questions in the survey cover a range of topics like the perception of Nunavut tourism, satisfaction with services, and infrastructure, transportation, and accommodation.
Chan said the survey is part of the consultation process being used to develop the renewed strategy, and that people’s responses will help guide its creation.
As an incentive to take part, participants’ names will be entered in a draw and selected at random to win prizes.
The survey is estimated to take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
Did they conduct these surveys in person too? After security at the Iqaluit airport, I was asked to complete a survey about Nunavut Tourism by someone near the gate. I said I would, but after mentioning that I lived here, they said it was for visitors only.
They’re probably different – if you go to the linked survey in this article, it focuses on opinions on tourism from residents. The one at the airport was probably ‘how was your trip’ for people who were visiting.
Just say NO to tourism and all be fine
Just say NO to supporting the local economy and teaching Inuit culture to others, and all will be fine.
GN is a dysfunctional government, how do they expect to develop tourism ?
All the GN need do is appear to be supporting tourism.
Problem is , traveling in the north is very expensive.
You arrive in a community that looks like a garbage dump… not appealing
… and all the communities are ugly, trash strewn and dysfunctional. Who wants to spend a small fortune to endure that?
Tourism development in Nunavut remains an expensive joke.
I agree many communities are full of junk and trash, but not all. Baker Lake is a stand out for how clean and well kept the town is! Keep up the great work Baker Lake!
Going to google Baker lake and go to image , better not be picture of broken ATV and Snowmoblies in the picture.
It all comes down to how much the bylaw officers are willing to enforce. All communities could be neat and tidy if they bylaw officers enforced their bylaws. Cambridge Bay is very neat and tidy too.
I hate to say it, but anyone that wants a good authentic arctic /inuit experience will go to greenland before considering nunavut. Their communities are much cleaner, have bars and restaurants, airfare and hotel costs are much less and are in general much more welcoming to tourists.
Nunavut really needs to step it’s game up if they want to be able to compete with the other players in the north. The odd cruise ship full of retired millionaires stopping in a community for a few hours is not a tourism economy.
EDT should clarify its own thoughts on tourism in light of the recent court ruling that showed they erred in declining a license to a well established tourism business and one of the only businesses operating in the high Arctic based solely on unfounded accusations from an HTO.
Quttinirpaaq National Park number of tourists since 2021 = 7
Tourism in space during the same period = 55
The only tourists from outside the territory are adventurers. They will come anyway since they want extreme nature and isolation. We don’t need to advertise for them… Well, to be fair, there are a few cruise ships, but I would not call this an “industry”! Here a strategy: All the money goes to replace broken windows and clean communities. It could be a very good start.