Tourism Yorkton made its annual report to the regular meeting of Yorkton Council.
The Yorkton Convention and Visitor Bureau is a non-profit organization founded in 1985 to promote tourism opportunities in the Yorkton area. It is governed by an elected Board of Directors. The Executive Director works with staff and volunteers well trained in customer service who generates awareness and interest in the dynamic range of services our membership adds to the city, detailed material circulated to Council.
The organization now operates under the name Tourism Yorkton and is located in the Visitor Information Centre, located at the junction of highways 9 and 16. The location gives visitors to the area easy access to information on the multitude of attractions, services and facilities in our city. The office is the only Tourism Information Centre on the Yellowhead Highway between Winnipeg and Saskatoon that is open year round.
Locally, tourism is important to the economy, added Darlene Stakiw, president of Tourism Yorkton.
鈥淭ravel and tourism generated an estimated $42.2 million in travel receipts in the Yorkton Constituency,鈥� she said, adding out of the 67,000 people employed within Saskatchewan, there were 1,718 people employed in the tourism related industries in the Yorkton Constituency.
We are open for business, indeed 鈥渨here good things happen鈥�, noted Stakiw.
