It's crucial to our market. We do receive direct air flights from Frankfurt, and we did receive direct flights from Zurich this year, although the cost of refuelling in Canada has prohibited Zurich from coming back this coming year. We hope they may change their mind at some point.
Our biggest market outside of the U.S. is Germany and German-speaking Europe. They represent a growing percentage, and I think it's reflective in the fact that tourism numbers in the Yukon, unlike the rest of Canada, have actually grown year over year. We were protected by the recession in a number of ways because of our presence in German-speaking Europe and in France, even though they have had challenges in arrivals in the U.K. Those, for us, are key markets for growth, and we simply could not do that.
We saw this year that direct air arrivals changed from two days a week to one day a week. That alone affected our European numbers. People really want to go direct. As you well know, there's a big difference on that flight from Vancouver to Ottawa if you have to change flights and stop in Toronto in-between. Our tourism business is very dependent upon those direct flights for growth.