New Tourism Regions

The province's plan to create 13 new tourism zones isn't sitting well with all tourist groups in this region.

A conference call was held yesterday by the Ministry of Tourism to explain how the new regions were going to work.

Gerry Cariou is the executive director of the Ontario Sunset Country Travel Association and says basically the province is trying to control how tourist marketing dollars aregoing to be spent.

Cariou says Sunset Country will continue to operate and use the internet extensively to market this region.

He admits the creation of the new tourism regions will likely have a small impact ontheir annual budget.