ByWard Market visits on the rise, still short of pre-pandemic levels: report (CBC)

Written By Valentina Perez Montoya

CBC - June 27, 2024

The number of annual visitors to the ByWard Market continues to gradually creep upward but still remains short of pre-pandemic levels, new data shows.

Last year saw approximately 18.6 million individual visits to the downtown Ottawa tourism and nightlife hotspot, according to the annual report from the ByWard Market District Market Authority.

While that's far short of the roughly 25.6 million visits made in 2019 — the last year before the arrival of COVID-19 — it's also higher than any year since, the report shows.

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Valentina Perez Montoya
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