a tourist hub, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, visits to the captitale-nationale are at an all-time low.For the past several years, business at the outdoor Café-Terrasse La Nouvelle-France in Old Quebec has been booming.
It experienced record years in 2017 and 2018, but this season, the restaurant has chosen to close its doors.“The whole business at the Nouvelle-France is predicated on 20,000 people walking up and down the street,” said owner, Kevin Quinn.
Coronavirus: Quebec government to inject $750 million into embattled tourism industry But those tourists aren’t coming this year.