The Calgary Stampede is closing in on its all-time attendance file set greater than a decade in the past.
Throughout a press convention on Sunday, officers with the Best Outside Present on Earth introduced after 9 days, the Stampede has welcomed 1,331,280 visitors to the stampede grounds.
The most important stampede attendance ever was set again in 2012, with 1,409,371 throughout its centennial celebration.
Calgary Stampede CEO Joel Cowley mentioned whereas these numbers are one thing to have fun, he doesn’t set attendance targets.
“I set expertise targets,” mentioned Cowley.
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“I’m a agency believer that we give attention to the qualitative in the beginning.
“If everybody who comes (to) Stampede Park through the Calgary Stampede, and fairly frankly all year long with our burgeoning conference, Superior Enterprise, if everybody has an ideal expertise, we’re profitable.”
Will Osler, president of the Calgary Stampede and chair of the board, mentioned whereas the “attendance numbers are nice,” it’s the visitor expertise that’s most essential.
“After we get it proper and I feel we did this yr … and we provide these visitor experiences, these nice experiences then they’re gonna come,” he mentioned.
The 2024 version of the stampede set attendance data throughout Tim Horton’s household day on July 7, when 201,260 visitors have been in attendance. Throughout TC Power day, 141,053 guests went by means of the park’s gates.
As nicely, greater than 350,000 individuals lined the streets of Calgary for the annual Calgary Stampede parade.
Throughout its ultimate day on Sunday, the Calgary Stampede mentioned it might want 78,091 guests to enter the park to interrupt the all-time file.
The Calgary Stampede will return to town on July 4, 2025.
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