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  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2704
    Description: The survey covers the scheduled services operated within, into or out of Canada by medium-size and smaller-size Canadian and non-Canadian air carriers. Data on the origin and destination of passengers from the reporting carrier's system are collected.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2925
    Description: The purpose of this survey is to collect new statistical information on Canada's tourist attractions.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2944
    Description: Statistics Canada is conducting this survey on behalf of the Canadian Tourism Commission, which will use the results to produce and up-to-date and comprehensive study of the adventure travel sector in Canada.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3152
    Description: The primary objective of the International Travel Survey (ITS) is to provide statistics on travellers, to and from Canada, their characteristics of travel and spending levels.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3810
    Description: The Travel Survey of Residents of Canada (TSRC) is a major source of data used to measure the size and status of Canada's tourism industry. It was developed to measure the volume, the characteristics and the economic impact of domestic travel. Since the beginning of 2005 this survey replaces the Canadian Travel Survey (CTS).

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3822
    Description: This survey identified the reasons why trips were taken as well as what motivated the traveller in the first place.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4439
    Description: The survey collected, among other things, information on Canadian residents' travel patterns during the past two years, their travel intentions over the next two years, their participation in entertainment and recreational activities at home and while on an overnight trip, the reasons for travelling or not travelling in Canada, the types of accommodation used, the sources of travel planning information and their impressions of Canada.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5005
    Description: The Frontier Counts data provide a full range of statistics on the number of international travellers by selected category and by type of transportation as well as the number of automobiles, trucks and other vehicles entering Canada.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5232
    Description: The National Travel Survey provides statistics on the activities of Canadian residents related to domestic and international tourism. It was developed to measure the volume, the characteristics and the economic impact of tourism.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5261
    Description: The Visitor Travel Survey (VTS) provides statistics on U.S. and overseas visitors to Canada, their characteristics of travel and spending levels. The Visitor Travel Survey was introduced in January 2018 to replace the U.S. and overseas visitors to Canada component of the International Travel Survey (ITS record 3152 Archived).
Data (144)

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  • Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023020
    Description: The "Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard" provides access to data on the number of border crossings in an interactive and customizable format. The counts include only those travelling for tourism-related purposes. The dashboard includes four visualizations: leading indicator of air arrivals, leading indicator of land arrivals, returning Canadians, and visitors to Canada.
    Release date: 2024-06-10

  • Table: 24-10-0056-01
    Frequency: Daily
    Description:

    The table is part of Frontier Counts. The data comes from the Primary Inspections Kiosks (PIK), from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Keywords include: airport, arrival, entry, excursionist, overnight, plane, port of entry, same-day, tourism, tourist, travel and visit.

    Release date: 2024-06-10

  • Table: 24-10-0057-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Daily
    Description:

    The table is part of Frontier Counts. The data comes from the Integrated Primary Inspection Line (IPIL), from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Keywords include: arrival, automobile, car, entry, excursionist, motorcycle, overnight, port of entry, same-day, tourism, tourist, travel and visit.

    Release date: 2024-06-10

  • Table: 24-10-0058-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Daily
    Description:

    The table is part of Frontier Counts. The data comes from the Integrated Primary Inspection Line (IPIL), from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Keywords include: arrival, automobile, car, entry, international, motorcycle, port of entry, tourism, travel, traveller, visit and visitor.

    Release date: 2024-06-10

  • Table: 24-10-0059-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Daily
    Description:

    The table is part of Frontier Counts. The data comes from the Integrated Primary Inspection Line (IPIL), from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Keywords include: arrival, crew, entry, international, port of entry, tourism, travel, traveller, visit and visitor.

    Release date: 2024-06-10

  • Table: 24-10-0045-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Quarterly
    Description:

    Number of person-trips by duration of trip, main trip purpose and country or region of trip destination (x 1,000).

    Release date: 2024-05-24

  • 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

  • Table: 24-10-0050-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    International travel by non-Canadian visitors coming to Canada for a trip. Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.

    Release date: 2024-05-23

  • Table: 24-10-0051-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    International travel by non-Canadian visitors coming to Canada for a trip. Seasonally-adjusted data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.

    Release date: 2024-05-23

  • Table: 24-10-0052-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    International travel to Canada by automobile (car), motorcycle, truck or other land vehicle, by port of entry (border crossing). Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.

    Release date: 2024-05-23
Analysis (115)

Analysis (115) (40 to 50 of 115 results)

  • Articles and reports: 12-001-X20060029552
    Description:

    A survey of tourist visits originating intra and extra-region in Brittany was needed. For concrete material reasons, "border surveys" could no longer be used. The major problem is the lack of a sampling frame that allows for direct contact with tourists. This problem was addressed by applying the indirect sampling method, the weighting for which is obtained using the generalized weight share method developed recently by Lavallée (1995), Lavallée (2002), Deville (1999) and also presented recently in Lavallée and Caron (2001). This article shows how to adapt the method to the survey. A number of extensions are required. One of the extensions, designed to estimate the total of a population from which a Bernouilli sample has been taken, will be developed.

    Release date: 2006-12-21

  • Journals and periodicals: 87-212-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This publication presents data and analytical text on trips and socio-economic characteristics of Canadians travelling within Canada. Trip information includes purpose, activities, mode of transportation, length of stay, origin and destination, and expenditures. In addition to providing national data, the publication also includes some tables presenting provincial and metropolitan detail.

    Release date: 2006-12-06

  • Articles and reports: 13-604-M2006051
    Description:

    This paper highlights the new Human Resource Module (HRM) of the Tourism Satellite Account developed by Statistics Canada. The HRM provides detailed information on employment related to tourism for the years 1997 to 2002. Information on wages and salaries, number of jobs and hours worked by occupation are included. Occupational data is further disaggregated by age, gender and immigration status. Seasonal patterns within tourism employment are also analyzed. This study provides a resource for training and planning for tourism.

    Release date: 2006-03-31

  • Articles and reports: 11-522-X20040018731
    Description:

    This article describes the application of the transitive indirect sampling and suggests a solution to a problem that can occur when the sample is too large. It explains how this type of sampling applies to non-captive tourism surveys when.

    Release date: 2005-10-27

  • Articles and reports: 13-604-M2005048
    Description:

    This paper highlights the new Canadian Tourism Satellite Accounts (CTSA) developed by Statistics Canada. The CTSA provides an economic measure of the importance of tourism in terms of expenditures, Gross Domestic Product and employment for Canada. It permits a comparison of tourism with other industries within Canada since the concepts and methods used are based on the framework of the Canadian System of National Accounts. The study revealed that the importance of tourism increased in Canada and that international visitors have become increasingly more important to Canadian tourism since the publication of the first Tourism Satellite Account for the year 1988. This paper presents the results of the CTSA for reference year 2000.

    Release date: 2005-10-03

  • Articles and reports: 21-006-X2005005
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This bulletin examines the number and characteristics of travellers to rural Canada in 2002 in order to develop an initial understanding.

    Release date: 2005-07-26

  • Articles and reports: 11-010-X20050027773
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Description:

    The close link between our exchange rate and cross-border shopping has broken down since 2002. More broadly, this is part of a worldwide slump in travel to the US. Meanwhile, travel to Canada from overseas has risen sharply. The increasingly Asian source of this travel has favoured Western Canada as a destination.

    Release date: 2005-02-10

  • Stats in brief: 13-604-M2005047
    Description:

    This paper discusses the revision policy of Canada's National Tourism Indicators (NTI) and summarizes results from some recent studies of data revisions to the NTI. The discussion is timely, as the adoption of explicit data revision policies has been emphasized recently as an essential element in the good governance of statistical systems.

    The paper starts with a brief description of the NTI, their underlying conceptual framework, and their sources and methods. Next comes a discussion of the need for data revisions, and an outline of various types of revisions. Then a few sections are devoted to the new NTI revision policy adopted with the first quarter 2004 estimates, and the associated costs and benefits. Revision studies, which have been used to assess quality of national accounts estimates, and the database established to track data revisions to the NTI are described next. Last, results from some recent NTI data revision exercises and studies are summarized.

    Release date: 2005-01-28

  • Articles and reports: 87-003-X20050017825
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article presents a trend analysis of the tourism trade balance between Canada and the United States using data from the International Travel Survey. Specifically, the article is an attempt to identify the factors or travel characteristics that had the greatest effect on the tourism trade balance since 1991. Pre-1991 data are not considered. The study focuses exclusively on travel between Canada and the United States because the U.S. contributes more than any other country to Canada's international travel receipts and is the country where Canadian travellers spend the most outside Canada.

    Release date: 2005-01-26

  • Journals and periodicals: 87-003-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Travel-log is a quarterly tourism newsletter that examines international travel trends, international travel accounts and the travel price index. It also features the latest tourism indicators and includes feature articles related to tourism.

    Release date: 2005-01-26
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Reference (22) (0 to 10 of 22 results)

  • Notices and consultations: 13-605-X201900100007
    Description:

    This article describes the upcoming revisions (November 2019) in the Canadian Macroeconomic Accounts resulting from the inclusion of illegal cannabis production, consumption and distribution as well as statistical revisions of the international travel services. The paper highlights the impact of these revisions on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the balance of international payments (BOP).

    Release date: 2019-05-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13-605-X201300511865
    Description:

    With the release of the first quarter 2013 estimates in June 2013, the National Tourism Indicators (NTI) were revised from the first quarter of 2009 to the fourth quarter of 2012. In addition, all data series expressed at 2002 prices (adjusted for inflation) have been rebased to the 2007 reference year. The change affects National tourism indicators data adjusted for inflation from 1986 to date. This article explains the impact of new and revised data on the NTI.

    Release date: 2013-09-27

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13-604-M2007052
    Description:

    This Canadian Tourism Satellite Account Handbook developed by Statistics Canada is intended as a guide to how the Canadian Tourism Satellite Account (CTSA) is compiled. The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) has become the internationally recognized framework and a vital tool by which to measure tourism activity in an economy. The goal of this handbook is to make the CTSA and its inner workings as transparent as possible by bringing previous internal documentation into the public realm along side previously published documents and new documentation. By sharing the Canadian practical experiences in development of the TSA, it should benefit other countries and other interested practitioners in the process of developing and understanding TSAs.

    This handbook covers information on the relevant tourism and national accounting concepts and definitions related to the CTSA. Detailed explanations of the various survey data sources and the methods used to move this data into the TSA framework are discussed.

    Release date: 2007-12-14

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 96-328-M2004019
    Description:

    This activity focusses on changes in the way in which fruit and vegetable producers are selling their produce. Using the pumpkin industry as a case study, it examines the agri-tourism trend.

    Release date: 2004-10-29

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13-604-M2004045
    Description:

    How "good" are the National Tourism Indicators (NTI)? How can their quality be measured? This study looks to answer these questions by analysing the revisions to the NTI estimates for the period 1997 through 2001.

    Release date: 2004-10-25

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13-009-X20030046842
    Description:

    How good are the National Tourism Indicators (NTI)? How can their quality be measured? This study looks to answer these questions through analysis of the revisions to the NTI estimates for the period 1997 through 2001.

    Release date: 2004-03-30

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 13-594-G
    Description: This guide provides indicators that are used to monitor supply, demand and employment for tourism in Canada on a timely basis. The guide provides information on the methods used to derive the supply, demand and employment indicators. It also provides information on the seasonal adjustment method and the derivation of constant dollar series. This guide was commissioned by the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC), following a pilot project providing quarterly and annual updates for the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA 1988).
    Release date: 2001-02-21

  • Notices and consultations: 87-003-X19970012882
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The purpose of this article is to inform Travel-log readers of the availability of a new analytical tool - the National Tourism Indicators. These estimates, which measure trends in tourism in Canada, are placed in perspective here, taking into account the concepts and definitions used in developing them.

    Release date: 1997-01-08

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1803
    Description: This survey collects data on a continuous basis from visitors from countries other than the United States.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1910
    Description: The National Tourism Indicators (NTI) provide timely information which facilitates ongoing monitoring and analysis of tourism and its related activities in Canada.

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