Tourism in Nova Scotia

Attractions outside of the Halifax regional municipality include the following: See main page: Tourism on the Eastern Shore (Nova Scotia) Nova Scotia has a highly developed highway system which allows for road transportation between various communities and tourism sites within the province.

Maritime Bus provides road transportation to/from Nova Scotia from the neighbouring province of New Brunswick.

[4] Marine Atlantic also provides two ferry links to the communities of Argentia and Port aux Basque, both in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

An estimated total of 1,659,000 tourists visited Nova Scotia in the months of January - September 2015, a 6 percent increase over the same period in 2014.

[6] This trend reverses a decline in the number of tourists that visited Nova Scotia in 2013, particularly during the off-peak season.

Lunenburg Academy, which is a National Historic Site of Canada and a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Fort Anne, Canada's First National Historic Site
Harbour at Peggy's Cove
Nova Scotia welcome sign, as seen from New Brunswick