The vast resources of the Internet will be a key to the province’s new tourism plan which will be unveiled Monday in Halifax. “E-commerce, we will see a lot more of that,” said Cape Breton’s Eleanor Anderson, director of the Nova Scotia Vision Team, an industry group that has been working with the province in developing tourism initiatives. “There is a heavy co-operative component, lots of opportunity for industry to join, whether it’s sales efforts in marketplaces in Ontario, the United States, Calgary or elsewhere.”

The plan will be launched at this year’s Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia annual summit, Monday and Tuesday in Halifax. The vision project — an initiative of the Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage, TIANS and the Nova Scotia Tourism Partnership Council — has been in the works since 2002 and its goal was to double tourism revenues...

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