'It's like a second Christmas': Montreal tourism booming

With the Just For Laughs festival, the Rogers Cup and the Osheaga music festival all taking place at the same time, Montreal is having an exceptionally busytourism weekend.

Add to that a cheap loonie and a steady number of "staycationers", and you have all the makings for a crowded city. The city's hotels were at capacity this weekend.

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"It's like a second Christmas," saidPierre Bellrose of Tourisme Montral.

"Almost 60 per cent of the touristscomefrom outside Quebec, mostly Ontario. So there are big payoffs for Montreal's economy."

According to numbers from Statistics Canada, foreign travel into Quebecis on an upswing since dropping to a low point in 2009,especially from the U.S. This resurgence coincides with an increasingly cheap Canadian dollar.

But it's not only foreign visitors livening up the city. Locals too are enjoying the summer at home. According to a Survey by CAA-Quebec of 1,000 Quebecers, 58 per cent said they'll spend the summer at home, a number similar to last year.

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"We're taking advantage of what Montreal offers," said Emmanuel Boutaud, a staycationerinterviewed by CBC Montreal. "We just went to a yoga class for free at Mount Royal, so everything that's available to Montreal residents we're taking advantage of."