Although not relevant I work for Princess Cruises and based on recent customer feedback regarding the British Isles cruises currently undertaken every 12 days round trip from Southampton on the Caribbean Princess with a maximum capacity of 3,227 passengers Belfast came top of the destinations passengers would more likely return to going by satisfaction levels followed by Dublin and Liverpool so that's just an example to show how popular Belfast is to inward tourism and can only improve in the future and many of those passengers were from Canada the USA as well as from the Far East including Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese.
Residents of Northern Ireland should be aware of how important tourism is and how popular it is to foreign visitors and BFS should be actively marketing the airport especially regarding a return of Canadian flights.