After two years of in-person event and festival cancellations, along with pandemic restrictions that brought tourism to a standstill, statistics show a strong rebound for Canada’s tourism industry in 2022 as numbers start to close the gaps to pre-pandemic levels.
Take Toronto, for example, one of the five most visited cities in Canada — in good company with Vancouver, Quebec, Montreal, and Niagara Falls. According to touropia.com, Toronto is the most culturally diverse city on the planet, where more than 140 languages are spoken, and city officials hope to reach their 2019 numbers of nearly 28 million visitors — 9.5 million overnight visitors and 18.1 million day visitors.
As a whole, Vancouver’s home province of British Columbia welcomed approximately 3 million international visitors in the first 10 months of 2022 compared to the nearly 6.5 million international arrivals in all of 2019.
Quebec City reported a 63.2% increase in the number of passengers transiting through Jean Lesage International Airport and an increase in the hotel occupancy rate of 56.8% from 2021.
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If you want to know more, you can read about another of Canada Movers and Shakers, Niagara Falls, here. Know your risk. Be safe.
