Why do people visit Montreal?
La Presse quizzed several parties of tourists about why they chose Montreal.
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david100 20:05 on 2019-07-08 Permalink
Hm, surely there were a lot more Canadians and Quebeckers on the Old Port that day than Americans and French, so my suspicious mind can’t help but see in this particular skew and focus on US/EU tourists a purpose.
Consider:
(1) Introduction describing increase in visitors from the US;
(2) A photo of obviously fundamentalist Jews, the article carefully noting they took an airbnb unit in Villeray, with the intimation that airbnb provides the location/size match appropriate for fundy Jews;
(3) A French family using airbnb with a focus on how cheap they are, traveling around in a car, camping, etc. – the suggestion being that they might not have come not to Montreal had airbnb not been an option;
(4) A hotel for the Muslim ladies with a couched but straightforward explanation that there’s room enough in the market for both airbnb and hotels; and
(5) Concluded with a bunch of stats about how great tourism is for Montreal and how small the number of Americans is.
Is the Presse shilling for airbnb? Maybe not, but this is a classic “manufacturing consent” type story where, in the guise of giving us some information about why people from the US (and France, I guess) visit Montreal, they line a fairly straightforward argument that airbnb enables greater tourism, which increases the wealth of the city and its people.
Anyway, an article of actual quality would have asked the tourists to name the most surprising things about Montreal or the best meals they had, would have been a lot more interesting.
And since this was an Old Port walkabout, I bet each would have had an interesting opinion of the Ville Marie trench, a grave blight that for some strange reason seems absolutely normal to Montrealers. If the Presse wants to campaign about something, they should dump airbnb and bang on the government to get that that goddamned trench covered up once and for all. Call it La honte de Montréal, which it is.
Ephraim 11:04 on 2019-07-09 Permalink
All these people came before AirBnB and will come after AirBnB. I deal with tourists everyday.