Acknowledgments

Thank you to Yan Cong, Tourism Manitoba for providing tourism statistics for Southwest Manitoba; Lois MacDonald, Riverbend Discovery Centre for insight into Brandon spending patterns; the Faculties and Facilities at Brandon University and Eleni Galatsanou early in the project.

Thank you to Research Team:

• Deb Berkan, Director, Institutional Data & Analysis
• Dr. Heather Duncan, Vice President (Research)
• Dr. Gervan Fearon, President
• Geneviève Maltais Lapointe, Research Analyst, Institutional Data & Analysis
• Scott Lamont, Vice-President (Administration & Finance)
• Dr. Kim Lemky, Project Manager
• Heather Macdonald, Associate Vice-President, (Office of Advancement and External Relations)
• Dr. Steven Robinson, Vice-President (Academic & Provost)

Sources

The financial data and information used in this study are publicly available from the Brandon University Institutional Data Fact Book and through Tourism Manitoba.

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