With 1 weekend left, 2023 CNE attendance expected to meet or beat last year’s | 24CA News
With one weekend left of the Canadian National Exhibition, organizers count on the full attendance for the 2023 occasion will meet or exceed final yr’s.
This yr’s occasion started on Aug. 18 and wraps up on Labour Day Monday, with lots nonetheless to see this lengthy weekend.
The CNE mentioned in a press release Friday that organizers anticipate the full attendance for the occasion will meet or exceed the 1.56 million seen in 2022, when The Ex returned following a two-year pandemic hiatus. Last yr was one of many largest attendance figures the CNE has seen up to now seven years, the assertion mentioned.
“Even if we get close to last year’s attendance, it would be more impressive to achieve those numbers without the pent-up demand from the pandemic that fuelled the near record crowds last year,” CNE CEO Darrell Brown mentioned.
The CNE mentioned this yr’s “balance of new and nostalgic” sights “proved to be a winning formula.”
An worker of the So Cute Ice Cream stall holds up a cheese-coated waffle cone, topped with a pretzel and recent pickle, left, and a Street Corn Ice Cream with lime, cotija cheese, and chilli seasoning throughout a Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) media preview in Toronto on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.
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One of these sights is the The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, which is being prolonged till Oct. 1.
For these trying to head out to The Ex this weekend, there are 110 distributors within the Food Building, greater than 100 concessions and video games within the Midway and greater than 700 indoor and out of doors retail distributors.
The Canadian International Airshow can be being held from 12 p.m. to three p.m. Sept. 2 to 4, which is able to make sure you draw giant crowds. The present will characteristic the Canadian Snowbirds the US Navy Blue Angels.
Other highlights this weekend embrace performances on the CNE Bandshell Stage, the CNE’s Rising Star Competition Finals, an ice skating and acrobatics present with Elvis Stojko, and the Food Truck Frenzy and Craft Beer Festival.
The CNE mentioned a current examine signifies that the occasion generates an financial impression of round $112 million for the GTA and $142 million for the province every year when in operation.
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