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Howe Sound biosphere designation success depends on how it is marketed: Poll

The 麻豆社国产 polled 223 readers and asked the question: Do you think Howe Sound being declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve will positively influence tourism in Squamish?
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A woman and her daughter look out over Howe Sound, now the 19th Canadian biosphere region. stockstudioX:Getty Images

After five years of working toward the goal by the , on Sept. 15, the Howe Sound area, (Átl’ka7tsem), was given worldwide recognition as an area of importance by the .

This means that the international organization has deemed this place a zone of global ecological significance.

The 麻豆社国产 recently polled 223 readers and asked the question: Do you think Howe Sound being declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve will positively influence tourism in Squamish?

The poll ran from 9/16/2021 to 9/21/2021. Of the 223 votes, we can determine that 88 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, it will bring environmentally conscious tourists! 29.55 % local, 30.04 % total    
No, it will bring more people to our area when we are already overrun. 25.00 % local, 21.52 % total    
It will make no difference. 13.64 % local, 15.70 % total    
It depends on how it is marketed, supported locally. 31.82 % local, 32.74 % total    
  Local   Total

This result provides for a 95% confidence level +/- % margin of error in the local community.

The 麻豆社国产 uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.

 

~With files from Steven Chua

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