‘Partnerships and collaborations’ a recipe for increasing Nunavut travel sector

Passengers from the cruise ship Silver Endeavour tour Mallik Island in Kinngait, in summer 2024. Tourism operators discussed how to increase tourism benefits for Inuit during the 2025 Travel Nunavut conference and annual general meeting in Iqaluit. (File photo by Arty Sarkisian)
Passengers from the cruise ship Silver Endeavour tour Mallik Island in Kinngait, in summer 2024. Tourism operators discussed how to increase tourism benefits for Inuit during the 2025 Travel Nunavut conference and annual general meeting in Iqaluit. (File photo by Arty Sarkisian)

The Nunavut travel industry directly employs more than 5,400 Nunavummiut, representing close to $335 million in employment income and nearly $50 million in revenue in the territory.

However, the sector can do better through industry and government “partnerships and collaboration,” according to delegates and organizers of the 2025 Travel Nunavut conference and annual general meeting, which wrapped three days of discussion at Iqaluit’s Aqsarniit hotel Thursday.

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