In the provincial budget released on Tuesday, tourism funding increased overall, but a few individual sites ended up on a list of cuts.
Sites with under 5K annual visitors ended up on the chopping block
Sam Farley · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 18, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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North Lake Provincial Park, which only opened in 2022, is among the historic and tourism sites the province is closing because of small visitor numbers. (Roger Cosman/CBC)
In the provincial budget released on Tuesday, tourism funding increased overall, but a few individual sites ended up on a list of cuts.
Last fiscal year, the province spent $87.8 million on tourism, and under the new budget, $92.8 million is budgeted.
A news release from Tourism Industry Association president Ginette Doiron commended the budget.
“For the association, which represents the voice of New Brunswick’s tourism operators, this budget marks a clear recognition of tourism’s economic importance across all regions of the province,” Doiron wrote.
But while the budget overall grew for tourism, a memo distributed to reporters from the province said that 10 “underutilized” provincially-owned tourism and heritage sites that saw under 5,000 annual visitors would be divested.
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