Between strong attendance numbers on the grounds, and full hotel rooms off, this year’s Stampede is suggesting strong economic impacts for Calgary.
Speaking to the media on July 15, Calgary Stampede CEO Joel Cowley said that the first full Stampede in three-years feels like turning a corner for the city.
“It’s incredibly meaningful to the local economy as well as we see visitors returned particularly those visitors that come from out of Canada,” he said.
As of Thursday, July 14, attendance to the 10-day event has outpaced 2014 through 2017, and is on par with the last pre-pandemic Stampede in 2019.
This year-to-date there have been 855,620 visitors to the grounds. This is just 12,551 shy of 2019’s 868,171 on Day 7.
