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"Canada exchange
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4/12/2011 -
The following extract from an
article is by, and reproduced from,
Art Thomason, The Arizona Republic
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to full story
This season's influx of snowbirds
delivered the best numbers in years for
the Valley's winter-visitor industry.
The snowbird season started to rebound
last year, and the trend has continued
as more winter visitors arrived earlier
and stayed longer, according to owners
of recreational-vehicle and mobile-home
parks.
They attribute the uptick in part to
retirees feeling more comfortable about
the economy and Canadians taking
advantage of the currency-exchange rate
that turns their $20 into nearly 21
American dollars.
Morris Farnsworth, executive director of
the Arizona Association of RV Parks and
Campgrounds, said an informal survey of
members statewide indicated that numbers
were up all over.
"Some parks were turning people away at
different times," Farnsworth said. "I
have friends who come every year and
stay at the same East Valley park. This
year, they had to move around to two or
three different parks to stay for the
winter." |
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It's cheaper
than heating your home:
Kim Marchbank, marketing director of Cal-Am
Properties, said the Costa Mesa,
Calif.-based company nearly filled its nine
RV resorts in Mesa and Surprise, the two
biggest snowbird meccas in the Valley.
"It's cheaper for a Minnesota resident to
stay here for a month than what it costs to
heat their home for the winter," Marchbank
said.
With more than 44,000 recreational-vehicle
spaces, Mesa has one of the state's highest
concentrations of snowbird-vacation sites,
many of them with attractions such as golf,
swimming, tennis, shuffleboard and big-name
entertainers like Wayne Newton and Shirley
Jones, both of whom played at Towerpoint
Resort, a Mesa RV community, this year. With
1,100 spaces, Towerpoint hit 98 percent of
its capacity this year, General Manager Joe
McGrath said.
"We were just strong, and the thing that
drives all of these communities is a sense
of community," he said. "If they have a good
time, they tell their friends and want them
to come."
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They're buying houses too:
Housing economist and analyst R.L. Brown
said Canadians are indeed having more of
an impact.
"Canadians bring other Canadians to this
market," Brown said. "It's a great
word-of-mouth thing. The buzz gets in
the Canadian press and among Canadians
who see each other as winter visitors."
Two of those Canadians are Andrene and
Harry Wilson of Edmonton, Alberta.
"We are basically coming down here
spending, spending, spending," said
Andrene, 61, a retired teacher and
consultant. "We're not here working."
The Wilsons recently purchased a
three-bedroom home in Mountain Bridge, a
master-planned community in east Mesa.
"We bought nearly $15,000 in new
furniture for it," said Harry, 65, who
sold drilling equipment for the oil
industry before retiring. "We love it
here, especially when there is 4feet of
snow in Edmonton or it's 20-below.
"There's going to be a real influx of
Baby Boomers down here, too."
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