"We're well above last year's record pace," Tourism Toronto chief marketing officer Andrew Weir told CBC News. Tourism Toronto expects to top the record 14 million overnight visitors the city attracted last year, partly because of all the high-profile sports events coming up in 2016. Tourism Toronto says the deep playoff run by the Raptors is helping to attract sports fans to the city. That's thanks in part to people like David MacNeil, a Virginia native who just visited Toronto for the first time. And with the Ontario Summer Games, the World Cup of Hockey, and the world junior hockey championship slated for later in the year, Weir said the number of visitors should keep climbing.

Source: CBC News July 04, 2016 09:01 UTC