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  • 41. Provincial and territorial tourism supply and expenditure
    Table: 24-10-0004-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Supply and domestic, interprovincial and international demand related to tourism by products, by province and territory.

    Release date: 2023-02-24
  • 42. Provincial and territorial gross domestic product (GDP) and employment generated by tourism and related measures
    Table: 24-10-0042-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Gross domestic product (GDP), employment, labour compensation per job, GDP per job and tourism share of employment and GDP by tourism industry, by province and territory.

    Release date: 2023-02-24
  • 43. Interprovincial tourism expenditures
    Table: 24-10-0044-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Expenditures related to tourism according to the province or territory of residence and the province or territory of the spending.

    Release date: 2023-02-24
  • 44. Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with tourism, by product
    Table: 38-10-0141-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Direct plus indirect energy use (terajoules) and greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalents) (kilotonnes) associated with tourism, by product.
    Release date: 2023-02-24
  • 45. The 2018 to 2021 revisions of the National Tourism Indicators
    Articles and reports: 13-605-X202200100005
    Description:

    This article explains the impact of new and revised data on the National Tourism Indicators (NTI). With the release of the fourth quarter 2021 estimates of the NTI in March 2022, all data were revised from the first quarter of 2018 to the third quarter of 2021. Estimates for all of 2021 were revised again with the release of the first quarter of 2022 NTI in July 2022, now including the fourth quarter of 2021.

    Release date: 2022-09-28
  • 46. Number of vehicles travelling between Canada and the United States Archived
    Table: 24-10-0002-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of vehicles travelling between Canada and the United States, by trip characteristics, length of stay and type of transportation. Data available monthly.
    Release date: 2022-02-23
  • 47. Non-resident travellers entering Canada, by country of residence (excluding the United States) Archived
    Table: 24-10-0003-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    This table contains 3549 series, with data for years 1972 - 2018 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; ...) Country of residence (273 items: Total non-resident travellers, countries other than the United States; North America, Central America and Caribbean, total; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; ...).

    Release date: 2022-02-23
  • 48. Trips by residents of countries other than the United States to Canada, percentage change Archived
    Table: 24-10-0003-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Trips to Canada by residents of selected countries other than the United States, monthly and percentage change. 

    Release date: 2022-02-23
  • 49. International travellers entering or returning to Canada, by province of entry, seasonally adjusted Archived
    Table: 24-10-0005-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of international travellers entering or returning to Canada by province of entry and traveller category (seasonally adjusted). Data available monthly.
    Release date: 2022-02-23
  • 50. Non-resident travellers entering Canada, by country of residence, seasonally adjusted Archived
    Table: 24-10-0006-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of non-resident travellers entering Canada by country of residence, excluding the United States (seasonally adjusted). Data available monthly.
    Release date: 2022-02-23
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  • 31. Government revenue attributable to tourism, by source of revenue
    Table: 36-10-0463-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Government revenue attributable to tourism, by source of revenue, Canada.

    Release date: 2023-09-28
  • 32. Government revenue attributable to tourism, by commodity
    Table: 36-10-0464-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Government revenue attributable to tourism (revenue from taxes on products), by commodity, Canada.

    Release date: 2023-09-28
  • 33. Government revenue attributable to tourism, by industry
    Table: 36-10-0465-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    Government revenue attributable to tourism, by industry, Canada

    Release date: 2023-09-28
  • 34. Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021012
    Description: This interactive visualization tool provides an overall representation of the relative performance of tourism-related activity with respect to the reference period, over time and geography. The user can also browse sources that were used to create the experimental tracker. In order to improve the timeliness, representativeness, and overall quality of the tourism tracker, it will be updated with new sources as they become available.
    Release date: 2023-03-06
  • 35. Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker and Grouped Data Sources
    Table: 24-10-0049-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    This view provides an overall representation of the relative performance of tourism-related activities with respect to the reference period, over time and geography, as well as the grouped data sources which were used to create it.

    Release date: 2023-03-06
  • 36. Provincial and Territorial Tourism Satellite Account
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2018011
    Description: The Provincial and Territorial Tourism Satellite Account (PTTSA) provides an economic measure of the importance of tourism in terms of expenditures, gross domestic product and employment for each of the provinces and territories. It permits a comparison of tourism with other industries within a province or territory since the concepts and methods used are based on the framework of the Canadian System of National Accounts.
    Release date: 2023-02-24
  • 37. Provincial and territorial tourism supply and expenditure
    Table: 24-10-0004-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Supply and domestic, interprovincial and international demand related to tourism by products, by province and territory.

    Release date: 2023-02-24
  • 38. Provincial and territorial gross domestic product (GDP) and employment generated by tourism and related measures
    Table: 24-10-0042-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Gross domestic product (GDP), employment, labour compensation per job, GDP per job and tourism share of employment and GDP by tourism industry, by province and territory.

    Release date: 2023-02-24
  • 39. Interprovincial tourism expenditures
    Table: 24-10-0044-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Expenditures related to tourism according to the province or territory of residence and the province or territory of the spending.

    Release date: 2023-02-24
  • 40. Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with tourism, by product
    Table: 38-10-0141-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Direct plus indirect energy use (terajoules) and greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalents) (kilotonnes) associated with tourism, by product.
    Release date: 2023-02-24
Analysis (115)

Analysis (115) (10 to 20 of 115 results)

  • 11. Study: Leading indicator of international arrivals by air, April 2020
    Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100024
    Description:

    International travel was among the first areas of the economy to experience the impact of COVID-19 as governments across the world closed their borders to contain the spread of the virus. This study examines international arrivals to Canada using Primary Inspection Kiosk (PIK) data.

    Release date: 2020-05-26
  • 12. Travel-related exposure to COVID-19
    Articles and reports: 89-28-0001201800100018
    Description:

    This Just the Facts article highlights statistics on travel-related COVID-19 cases in Canada using case-level data (Detailed confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (Preliminary data)) and travel data (Frontier Counts).

    Release date: 2020-04-08
  • 13. From far and wide, people are travelling to Canada! Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019042
    Description:

    This infographic provides information on travel to Canada by United States and overseas residents in 2018. It highlights key travel characteristics and the spending patterns of the travellers.

    Release date: 2019-09-27
  • 14. The 2015 to 2018 revisions of the National Tourism Indicators Archived
    Articles and reports: 13-605-X201900100004
    Description:

    The revisions to the National Tourism Indicators are the result of new benchmarks from the 2015 supply and use tables and revisions to the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts. Constant dollar estimates were also updated to base year 2012.

    Release date: 2019-03-28
  • 15. Measuring private short-term accommodation in Canada 2015 to 2018 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201907319138
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-03-14
  • 16. Tourism spending on culture and sport products 2016 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201815218584
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2018-06-01
  • 17. The 1986 to 2016 revisions of the National Tourism Indicators Archived
    Articles and reports: 13-605-X201700154867
    Description:

    Updated benchmarks from the 2012 Canadian Tourism Satellite Account (CTSA) were incorporated. Other sources of new and revised data and selected methodological changes were also introduced. This article will focus mostly on revisions beginning in 2012, the reference year of the most recent CTSA.

    Release date: 2017-09-28
  • 18. The evolution of Canadian tourism, 1946 to 2015 Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-630-X2017001
    Description:

    This issue of Canadian Megatrends takes a historical look at Canadian tourism, describing the long-term changes in who has been visiting Canada—and where Canadians have been visiting.

    Release date: 2017-01-16
  • 19. Canadian tourism satellite account 2012 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20163083413
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2016-11-03
  • 20. Tourism satellite account: Human resource module 2014 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20152744323
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2015-10-01
Reference (22)

Reference (22) (10 to 20 of 22 results)

  • 11. Air Passenger Origin and Destination, Domestic Journeys
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2702
    Description: The Air Passenger Origin and Destination, Domestic Journeys survey provides estimates of the number of passengers traveling on scheduled domestic commercial flights by directional origin and destination.
  • 12. Air Passenger Origin and Destination, Canada-U.S.A.
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2703
    Description: The Air Passenger Origin and Destination - Canada/United States survey provides estimates of the number of passengers traveling on scheduled commercial flights between Canada and the United States by directional origin and destination.
  • 13. Coupon Passenger Origin and Destination Report - Other Unit Toll Services
    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.
  • 14. Survey of Canada's Tourist Attractions
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2925
    Description: The purpose of this survey is to collect new statistical information on Canada's tourist attractions.
  • 15. Survey of Adventure Travel Operations in Canada
    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.
  • 16. International Travel Survey: Electronic questionnaires and Air Exit Survey
    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.
  • 17. Travel Survey of Residents of Canada
    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).
  • 18. Tourism Attitude and Motivation Study
    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.
  • 19. Travel Activities and Motivation Survey
    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.
  • 20. Frontier Counts
    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.

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