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  • 361. Profile of Canada's travel agency industry Archived
    Articles and reports: 63-016-X19990034862
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The travel agency industry plays an essential role in Canada's tourism industry, and has ripple effects on other sectors of the Canadian economy. This article presents 1997 data on the industry's general characteristics, revenue and cost structure, client base, marketing methods, and trade patterns. To offer more context, these results are sometimes compared to those of previous years.

    Release date: 2000-01-18
  • 362. Challenges Facing Canada's Internet Service Providers: A Snapshot from a Survey of ISPs Archived
    Articles and reports: 63F0002X1999028
    Description:

    This article focuses on characteristics of primary Internet service providers (ISPs), that is, firms reporting that 50% or more of their revenues come from ISP activities. It looks at challenges facing ISPs including barriers to growth, competing in the Internet sector, complaints and practices regarding offensive content and conduct, as well as ISPs' perceptions of what is important to their customers. These items are analysed after classifying ISPs into four different size categories, enabling one to see any differences in perception or conduct between ISPs of varying sizes.

    Release date: 2000-01-10
  • 363. Tourism service industries Archived
    Articles and reports: 87-403-X19970014747
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This chapter describes four specific industry sectors : accomodation services, restaurant services, travel agencies and tour operators, and Canadian tourist attractions.

    Release date: 1999-11-24
  • 364. Tourism in Canada and its various economic facets Archived
    Articles and reports: 87-403-X19970014748
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Tourism affects a number of industries. Hotels, travel agencies, airlines and restaurants are to varying degrees affected by tourism. Thus, tourism is not just one industry, but an amalgam of several, and the tourism phenomenon raises a number of questions because of its complexity, its various ramifications and its scope.

    Release date: 1999-11-24
  • 365. A glance at the future Archived
    Articles and reports: 87-403-X19970014751
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The purpose of this chapter is, first, to review some of the current long and medium term forecasts for tourism globally and within Canada. Secondly, the chapter discusses some of the Canadian tourism industries' current responses to their changing economic and social context.

    Release date: 1999-11-24
  • 366. The Gambling Industry: Raising the Stakes Archived
    Articles and reports: 63F0002X1999026
    Description:

    Growth in the gambling industries has continued to outstrip that of most industries. Gambling has brought such economic benefits as increased revenues and employment to many regions. Although some communities have not embraced the arrival of casinos and video lottery terminals, most households in Canada do participate in and spend money on some form of gambling activity. This article presents a statistical portrait of Canada's gambling industry. It examines the economic output, jobs, and government revenues generated by the gambling industry, and also provides provincial comparisons.

    Release date: 1999-09-03
  • 367. Room Utilization in the Traveller Accommodation Industry Archived
    Articles and reports: 63F0002X1999025
    Description:

    Both personal and business travel have seasonal patterns that lead to variations in the demand for hotels, motels and other accommodation services. This article examines seasonal fluctuations experienced by Canada's traveller accommodation industry in 1996. It then focuses on monthly variations in hotel and motel occupancy rates according to such factors as location, establishment size and market orientation. The summary measures yielded by this study also offer useful benchmarks against which individual hotels and motels can compare their own room utilization figures.

    Release date: 1999-08-09
  • 368. Employment and Remuneration in the Services Industries Since 1984 Archived
    Articles and reports: 63F0002X1999024
    Description:

    In recent years, Canada's economy has continued to become more service-based. This shift is particularly evident when examining information by sector for Canada's workforce. This paper offers a descriptive historical overview of changes in employment and remuneration in the services sector during the 1984-97 period. Changes in full-time employment, part-time employment, self-employment, and average wages and salaries are noted.

    As well, particular attention is devoted to shifts in these indicators for such service industries as: finance, insurance and real estate services; business services; food and beverage services; communication services; amusement and recreation services; and traveler accommodation services.

    Release date: 1999-06-17
  • 369. Entertainment Services: A Growing Consumer Market Archived
    Articles and reports: 63F0002X1999023
    Description:

    Canada's consumer market for entertainment services grew almost 50% in real terms from 1986 to 1996. Canadians are spending more on renting cablevision, video games videotapes and satellite services, and they still attend live sports events, movies and theatre. As a result, spending on entertainment services comprises a growing proportion of the average household's budget. This article explores the shares of Canada's consumer market for entertainment services that are accounted for by various household types and income groups.

    Release date: 1999-05-12
  • 370. Room utilization in the traveller accommodation industrry Archived
    Articles and reports: 63-016-X19980044487
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article examines data on the seasonal patterns of demand for accomodation supplied by Canada's hotel and motel establishments during the 1996 reference year.

    Release date: 1999-04-15
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  • 11. Spending by foreign residents travelling in Canada by country of residence, tourism region and spending category, inactive Archived
    Table: 24-10-0047-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision
    Frequency: Quarterly
    Description: This table presents information on tourism spending of foreign visitors in Canada by country of residence, tourism region and spending category. Country of residence is organised into eleven major source of travellers to Canada including the United States, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, India, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico and other overseas countries. Spending categories include accommodation, food and beverage, transportation in Canada, recreation and entertainment, and clothes and gifts.
    Release date: 2024-05-24
  • 12. Strategic focus regarding goods or services (products), by industry and enterprise size
    Table: 33-10-0154-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Percentage of enterprises for which specific statements best described their strategic focus regarding goods or services (products), by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. Statements that best described enterprises’ strategic focus regarding goods or services (products) include maintain sales of existing goods or services, expand the sales of existing goods or services, introduce new or significantly improved goods or services regularly, and don’t know.

    Release date: 2024-04-30
  • 13. Services offered to complement the sale of goods, by industry and enterprise size
    Table: 33-10-0166-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Percentage of enterprises that offered specific services to complement the sale of goods, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Complementary services include after-sales maintenance or repair, installation or implementation, training or technical support, after-sales condition monitoring or quality control, customization, distribution or transportation, leasing or rental agreements, and other services.

    Release date: 2024-04-30
  • 14. Expansion of capacity for services to complement the sale of goods, by industry and enterprise size
    Table: 33-10-0167-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Percentage of enterprises that expanded capacity for specific services to complement the sale of goods, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a three-year observation period. Complementary services include after-sales maintenance or repair, installation or implementation, training or technical support, after-sales condition monitoring or quality control, customization, distribution or transportation, leasing or rental agreements, and other services.

    Release date: 2024-04-30
  • 15. Food services and drinking places, summary statistics
    Table: 21-10-0171-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    The summary statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) which include: operating revenue (dollars x 1,000,000), operating expenses (dollars x 1,000,000), salaries wages and benefits (dollars x 1,000,000), and operating profit margin (by percent), of food services and drinking places (NAICS 722), annual, for five years of data.

    Release date: 2024-03-14
  • 16. Food services and drinking places, industry expenditures
    Table: 21-10-0172-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    The operating expenses by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) which include all members under industry expenditures, for food services and drinking places (NAICS 722), annual (percent), for five years of data.

    Release date: 2024-03-14
  • 17. Food services and drinking places, distribution of total sales
    Table: 21-10-0213-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: The distribution of total sales, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 722 food services and drinking places, which include all members under distribution of sales, annual, (percent), for five years of data.
    Release date: 2024-03-14
  • 18. Food services and drinking places, e-commerce sales
    Table: 21-10-0232-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    E-commerce sales for North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) food services and drinking places, includes all members under sales, for Canada, for one year of data.

    Release date: 2024-03-14
  • 19. Food services and drinking places, methods used by businesses locations that reported e-commerce sales
    Table: 21-10-0249-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Methods used for e-commerce sales for businesses locations that reported e-commerce sales for food and drinking places, for Canada, for three years of data.

    Release date: 2024-03-14
  • 20. Engineering services, summary statistics
    Table: 21-10-0163-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: The summary statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) which include: operating revenue (dollars x 1,000,000), operating expenses (dollars x 1,000,000), salaries wages and benefits (dollars x 1,000,000), and operating profit margin (by percent), of engineering services (NAICS 54133), annual, for five years of data.
    Release date: 2024-03-12
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  • 51. Who gains from computer use? Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X200510713146
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Workers who use computers earn more than those who do not. Is this a productivity effect or merely selection (that is, workers selected to use computers are more productive to begin with). After controlling for selection, the average worker enjoys a wage premium of 3.8% upon adopting a computer. This premium, however, obscures important differences by education and occupation. Long-run returns to computer use are over 5% for most workers. Differences between short-run and long-run returns suggest that workers may share training costs through sacrificed wages.

    Release date: 2005-09-21
  • 52. Business support services Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X200510513142
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Call centres are believed to be largely responsible for the phenomenal growth of the business support services industry over the past two decades. The Labour Force Survey is used to profile call-centre workers and to substantiate or disprove some commonly held perceptions.

    Release date: 2005-06-20
  • 53. Regional disparities of research and development in the business services sector (V-B) Archived
    Articles and reports: 11F0024M20040007457
    Description:

    The Canadian economy is characterized by the size of the service sector. Elsewhere, the research and development (R&D) activity contributes to the growth of the economy. Paradoxically, R&D is sometime considered as an activity performed by the manufacturing sector. This article sheds light on the importance of efforts dedicated to R&D in the business services sector.

    Release date: 2004-11-25
  • 54. The Canadian resort traveller: Trends and implications for the resort industry Archived
    Articles and reports: 87-003-X20040036917
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The purpose of this study is to address the question: What are the differences between Canada's domestic resort market and the non-resort market?

    Release date: 2004-05-31
  • 55. My money, my choice: exploring consumer spending on entertainment services Archived
    Articles and reports: 87-004-X20020036755
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article examines household spending on entertainment services in 2001, focussing on differences in spending by household type and income. Entertainment services industries rely on spending by various types of households. Knowledge about the characteristics of consumers and their spending patterns enables entertainment service providers to market their products to meet the needs of the current market, and to develop programs to attract new consumers.

    Previous research looking at differences in spending on entertainment services has shown that consumer preferences vary across socio-economic factors such as income, household type and geographical region. Similar to entertainment spending patterns in 1997, there was evidence that Canadians continued to 'cocoon' in 2001, spending more on entertainment inside the home and less outside the home.

    Spending on entertainment services also varied by level of household income. It is not surprising that both the percentage of households that spent on entertainment and the average amount spent increased with income. Households in the highest income quintile accounted for a disproportionate share of the consumer market for entertainment services in 2001.

    The presence of children in the household made a real difference in spending patterns. Households with children represented the highest percentage of reporting households in seven of the eight categories of entertainment spending and, on average, they spent the most in six of the eight categories.

    Release date: 2004-01-13
  • 56. Building the perfect system: An analysis of the computer systems design and related services industry. Archived
    Articles and reports: 63-016-X20030036710
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The need for Information Technology (IT) support has never been greater than it is today. Businesses, institutions, government and individuals all rely heavily on IT networks to convey information, process data, and provide or access services.

    This paper describes how a leading IT industry, including computer systems design and related services, has responded to the mounting demand for IT services in Canada. Structural differences between small and large system design firms are explored and data describing industry growth rates, export markets, and employment characteristics are examined.

    Release date: 2003-12-22
  • 57. Research and Development in Canada's Service Sector Archived
    Articles and reports: 63F0002X2003046
    Description:

    Services constitute the single most important industry in Canada's economy, with 68% of total gross domestic product, 75% of employment and 53% of consumer spending. However, this industry is not widely perceived as being Canada's spearhead of research and development (R&D), a role more traditionally assigned to the manufacturing sector. Still, services are becoming an increasingly important force in R&D, and this is why we should reconsider the true role played by R&D in the service sector. This article, in fact, sets out to quantify R&D activities within the service sector.

    Here are some highlights of this exploratory study:

    - In 2002, the commercial service sector was responsible for 28.5% of all R&D expenditures for the economy as a whole.

    - In 2000, 36.6% of all personnel assigned full time to R&D worked in the commercial service sector.

    - Quantification of the amounts spent on R&D from within the service sector does not necessarily correspond to traditional industrial classifications. For example, R&D is primarily performed in such sectors as biotechnology, software, telecommunications, the environment and logistics, which are not included in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) classification scheme.

    - Several service sector activities are very labour intensive and require highly skilled R&D workers. For example, of all employees performing R&D in the field of biotechnology, 23% hold doctorates or master's degrees.

    Release date: 2003-12-22
  • 58. Profile of Campgrounds and Outfitters Archived
    Articles and reports: 63F0002X2003047
    Description:

    Even though all of the campgrounds and outfitters combined were self-categorized as midscale accommodations, 87% of the campgrounds catered to an economy/midscale market while around 84% of the outfitters were midscale/upscale. Only outfitters derived more revenue from packaged vacations than from guest units. Americans made up the greatest number of those visiting Canada's hunting and fishing camps while campgrounds generated most of their business from Canadian travellers. Canada's pristine wilderness draws foreign travellers who want to experience world-class hunting and fishing expeditions.

    Release date: 2003-12-22
  • 59. Building the Perfect System: An Analysis of the Computer Systems Design and Related Services Industry Archived
    Articles and reports: 63F0002X2003045
    Description:

    The need for Information Technology (IT) support has never been greater than it is today. Businesses, institutions, government and individuals, all rely heavily on IT networks to convey information, process data and provide, or access, services.

    This paper focusses on describing how a leading IT industry, Computer Systems Design and Related Services, has responded to the mounting demand for IT services in Canada. The paper explores structural differences between small and large system design firms and examines data describing industry growth rates, export markets and employment characteristics.

    Release date: 2003-09-02
  • 60. Resiliency in the natural resources service sector Archived
    Articles and reports: 63-016-X20030016584
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article analyzes the performance of three services industries which grew strongly in 2001 in spite of the general economic slowdown in that year. The industries analysed are Engineering services, Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing, as well as Surveying and mapping services. In all three industries revenues from natural resources projects, especially oil and gas, were high.

    Release date: 2003-07-22
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