For Ottawa hotel operators, it's the Canada Day hangover

It’s a perennial pattern in the National Capital Region. Tourists scramble to find hotel rooms on Canada Day and are willing in most cases to pay full price. The following weekend? Not so much.
During last year’s Canada Day weekend, for instance, tourists secured 14,585 rooms across Ottawa. The next weekend, just 11,801 rooms were occupied, a decline of nearly 20 per cent according to a compilation by Ottawa Tourism.
Of course, that was the Canada 150 celebration, which pulled in an