The tourism season has been a mixture of celebrations and sadness for us, on one hand jubilant over the excellent number of visitors we have seen over the summer and through the Celtic Colour Festival. The accolades that Cape Breton Island has received continues to rise for its scenery, festivals and operators, which is great to hear. We are seeing the spin off of this in the variety of tourists coming to see what we are all about. The Celtic Colours Festival had another spectacular season with visitors travelling around the island to take in as many concerts as possible. The concerts at Lower River and St. Peter’s were sold out and the D’Escousse venue saw a good number of attendees as well. Community events and suppers scored very big with visitors, with both St. Georges Channel and L’Ardoise selling out, and the Kitchen Rackets, after hours party in St. Peter’s and Dundee reported excellent turn outs. Hats off to the Celtic Colours Festival organization and all the volunteers who work so hard to make this major festival a success. With the success of the Celtic Colours Festival it rounded out a tremdious tourism season with summer favorites such as The Beggars Banquet and The Festival on The Hill and Baddeck and St. Peter’s Ceilidhs scoring very high.
On a personal note the Cape Breton Tourism Industry has been saddened by the loss over the season of two very dear friends and colleagues. Marlene MacDonald tourism counselor from our Baddeck Visitor Centre, who was taken so suddenly from us due to a car accident in August and on October 12th, Muriel Boyd from our Sydney Visitor Centre passed away from a sudden illness. Both Marlene and Muriel brought so much to the tourism industry. They loved what they did, and conveyed this to our visitors with their easy manner, and warm and smiling personality, which made visitors feel welcomed and at ease. It was a pleasure to have known these two wonderful ladies and they will be sadly missed by all of us.
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