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MONTREAL — Aerial shots showing a crowd estimated at more than 100,000 protesters spilling out of the Place des Festivals Tuesday evoked more peaceful times in Quebec. Usually when that many people fill the downtown site, it is for one of the International Jazz Festival’s free summer concerts.

As the tuition protests drag on with no resolution in sight, businesspeople and tourism officials are starting to worry that the overlap between the student movement and the festivals that define Montreal summer will not be just symbolic.

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“I don’t think we would have ever thought that it would have lasted this long,” William Brown, executive vice-president of the Hotel Association of Greater Montreal said in an interview Wednesday, the 101st day of protests that began back in February.

“Now that it has gone this long and it’s getting worldwide media attention, we’re beginning to get very concerned about the overall image of Montreal as a destination.”