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The St. Peter's Visitor Centre is scheduled to open June 12th. Centre staff are looking forward to welcoming visitors to the area this summer. Hours of operation for the Centre will be from 8:30am until 6:30pm seven days a week. Again this summer the Visitor Information Centres operated by Destination Cape Breton will be equipped with a computer events calendar that will give the staff first hand information of events happening around the entire island. Community groups and event organizers are encouraged to send your happenings to the centre in your area and staff will make sure that these events are listed. Visitors coming into VICs will be able to obtain event agendas for the areas they will be travelling to, they will be able obtain a schedule for one day or several days, whichever suits their travel needs. With this new tool, tourists will now be aware of functions that just may have them extend their vacation plans for a longer time than they had first planned. This summer Destination Cape Breton's Visitor Centres will be having an open house which will invite operators and business representatives to come and see just how the Visitor Centres can be of help to the operators, a member of Parks Canada as well as Destination Cape Breton Association will also be on hand to fill everyone in on what is happening with them this summer. The date for the St. Peter's Visitors Centre's Open House will be June 13th, at 7pm. All Accommodation operators and business operators including members from service stations, restaurants, stores and pharmacys marinas and yacht clubs etc. are cordinually invited to attend. All these sectors of industry are ambassadors to tourism, as they may be the first contact that visitors have with an area. The information they receive from the from line staff of these operations can influence a visitor more than one thinks, sometimes keeping them in an area longer.
Local Events: On June 3rd and 4th, Louisbourg will be hosting Seafest. With a wide variety of events taking place from a Snow Birds fly-over to seafood galore. Please note, reservations are required by 3pm for the Lobster Dinner at the Point of View Suites.
There will be a Sunday Brunch (all home cooked dishes) held at the Tara Lynne Community Centre in River Bourgeois on June 12th, from 10:30am until 1pm.