As NWT residents get set for the warm summer months, the territorial government is asking campers to be mindful of the rules around selling camp site reservations.

The Northwest Territories Parks posted a notice to its Facebook page on June 18 expreessing concern over SA国际影视传媒渁n increase in the private exchange of campground reservations - on social media sites.

SA国际影视传媒淣WT Parks would like to remind campers that any private transactions completed must be identified to the park contractor prior to the reservation date,SA国际影视传媒� it states.

Drew Williams, spokesperson for the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment said since camping season started during the May-long weekend, people have posted camp reservations for sale on Facebook

Many of those listings can be found on the Yellowknife Campers public group.

SA国际影视传媒淲hen you get to a campsite you get a permit when you get there and that is not exchangeable and that is under the Territorial Parks Act,SA国际影视传媒� Williams explained.

SA国际影视传媒淔olks are trading online at lot and sometimes with strangers and if you do that, we are good with it but for own protection just let our parks supervisor know.SA国际影视传媒�

If a parks supervisor were to simply give a permit to a person who arenSA国际影视传媒檛 on the reservation, the original person could end up being liable for any damages or other problems that the new person could pose.

ItSA国际影视传媒檚 also illegal to go to the site with a reservation claiming you are someone else.

NWT Parks is recommending people wanting to cancel a reservation to do so online so that a financial transaction can be obtained and the spot can be re-booked by someone else.

Williams said the department has seen more incidents of this situation this year as more people have been aiming to get outside.

SA国际影视传媒淥bviously our parks are extremely busy with generally good weather but folks havenSA国际影视传媒檛 been out in a while and havenSA国际影视传媒檛 been on holiday,SA国际影视传媒� he said.

SA国际影视传媒淧eople are doing a lot of camping and everything is happening at a higher rate than normal.SA国际影视传媒�

The department reported in a May 11 regular blog entry that demand for camping has increased sharply, similar to last year.

SA国际影视传媒淏y the end of the first week, 3,763 reservations had been booked SA国际影视传媒� an increase of 15 per cent from last yearSA国际影视传媒檚 record number of overnight stays by NWT residents,SA国际影视传媒� Williams said.

SA国际影视传媒�5,704 visits were made to the NWT Parks campground reservation portal generating more than 110,476 page views.SA国际影视传媒�

Williams says that in a regular year, the last one being in 2019, NWT Parks see 35,249 overnight campers.

In 2020, there were 23,105 overnight campers, which represented a 46 per cent increase of NWT residents staying in parks over the 2019 season.

Use of NWT campgounds by territorial residents has increased 61 per cent since 2019.