There may be a few more photo ops than usual going on in Gros Morne National Park today.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was in the park yesterday giving an update on the Canada Strong Pass, will spend today hiking in the west coast park.

He says that particular tourism initiative, which eliminates admission fees for the summer months, has helped increase visitation numbers by 20 per cent in Atlantic Canada and 15 per cent in the rest of Canada.

“I’ve wanted to come to Gros Morne for so long, and now I’m here so I am going to do some hiking and see the Tablelands, the fjords…it’s three times the size of Toronto and has many things including the geological formation which proved plate tectonics,” he said Friday.