The main statistics Highlights of the study Activities in the cultural sector in the Greater Montreal region have an impressive economic impact.
Direct jobs are nonetheless important in terms of all jobs in the region.
A feature of cultural events, such as festivals, is that they attract a large number of tourists who would not otherwise be here. This larger number of visitors offsets non-economy spending involved in holding these events and guarantees a beneficial net economic for Montreal 1 . A number of other metropolitan regions have tried to learn more about the economic impact of cultural sector activities on their regions. While, in light of the methodological differences, we should be cautious in making comparisons between the results of our study and those of the Toronto region study, the impact of the Montreal cultural sector nevertheless compares favourably . In addition, we felt that it was important to compare our study's findings on the cultural sector's impact in terms of the GDP with GDP evaluations based on other methodologies for various sectors of the Quebec economy 3 .