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Post by bjd on Mar 6, 2017 12:12:37 GMT
Toronto tourism and the hotel owners have a new marketing video. From what I read, they are aiming for a "younger demographic, not Trump voters"  Of course, this is only downtown, not the residential areas/suburbs where most people live. |
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Post by lagatta on Mar 6, 2017 15:22:57 GMT
Well, except in the case of certain out-of-city centre attractions such as the Ontario Science Centre, I don't particularly see why visitors would head to the suburbs. I think a few of the places are outside the downtown core, though.
They are aiming at younger people, and making the point that the destination is LGBT friendly. But these ads strongly resemble one another.
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Post by bjd on Mar 6, 2017 16:35:40 GMT
I agree about going beyond downtown, although I was told the Aga Khan Museum is very good. I spotted it from the bus as I arrived from Ottawa last year.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 16:44:16 GMT
The video is quite nice visually, but it is severely flawed by not explaining anything. While a lot of tourism videos are excessively pedantic, I think all of us would like to know where things are in relation to each other and what makes them special. The things happening in the video could just as easily take place in 50 other cities (at least). When is the Caribbean carnival? When can we expect to see people dancing in the subway? Why is the Eaton Centre shown and why is it still even still called the Eaton Centre?
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 6, 2017 17:43:09 GMT
I quite enjoyed Toronto, but I think Peter Ustinov did the perfect advert for it when he described it as New York run by the Swiss. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" |
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Post by bjd on Mar 6, 2017 19:14:58 GMT
I quite enjoyed Toronto, but I think Peter Ustinov did the perfect advert for it when he described it as New York run by the Swiss. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" It has changed quite a lot since Peter Ustinov's time but it's still not New York. In one of her essays, Jan Morris called Toronto "second best" as a choice of where people want to immigrate to. As for the Eaton Centre, it was called that because it was opened to house a big department store called Eaton's. I was surprised to see the "flying" Canada geese -- they weren't there last time I looked in. |
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