Strong Canadian Dollar Brings Grown-up Quebecois Back to a Vacation Destination of Their Youth (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By JULIA LAWLOR
Published: August 5, 2007

Tourism officials and hotel owners in the New Jersey shore resort of Wildwood began noticing an increase in the number of French Canadian visitors in the summer of 2005, after a prolonged scarcity caused by a weak Canadian dollar and high unemployment in Quebec.

Québécois had been devoted fans of the Wildwoods since the 1960s, when an aggressive marketing campaign lured them with affordably priced motel rooms; wide, free beaches; warm waters; and a lively, family-oriented boardwalk scene.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/05mainnj.html