Thank you so much for that question.
The tourism growth strategy that we've been working on in consultation, not just with us, but with that ecosystem that you're referring to.... We've been working on this for 10 months now, alongside our minister and his team. In that strategy, what we have put forward are investments that could take us from 22 million visitors to 30 million by 2030, and a $105-billion industry to a $134-billion industry.
At the heart of it, it is about the government co-investing alongside the other levels of government and industry in building those major attractions—those convention centres and those Fogo Island Inns. We need to be able to capitalize on that. If we build it, they will come, and this is the moment for us to make those investments.
In addition to that, we're looking for marketing dollars so that we can continue to tell our story. Business events are going to be important, because, to go a previous question, we lost some ground there.
Central to all of this is making sure that in the first place we have a workforce to be able to meet the demand we have in Canada even today. With all of those pieces in play, that will create the demand drivers for people to come.
Of course, from a hotel perspective, we want to make sure at the same time that we have enough hotel capacity in this country, so we have recommended a credit facility so that we can keep up with construction. We're at less than 1% of growth today in terms of the capacity we have. We are short capacity. For example, in Calgary, we're 3,000 rooms short today. We need to be investing not just in the demand drivers but also in the associated capacity that would come with it. That's all been outlined in the tourism growth strategy.
We're hoping for something meaningful here. We're hoping that we can compete with other countries that are investing billions into the strategy, and not the low hundreds of millions.
Thank you for the question.