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Tags: canadians, Internet-reservations, online-travel-agencies, purchase-behavior, travel-agencies

For the first time, US research firm PhoCusWright has conducted a comprehensive study of the online travel marketplace in Canada: the Canadian Online Travel Overview. Though it has long been thought that Canadians lag behind Americans when it comes to using the Internet to plan and purchase travel, this report finally provides an overview of [...]

Tags: americans, Canada, exchange-rates, indicators, Issues, price-of-gas

Now the Canadian dollar has reached parity with its US counterpart, many questions are being raised. Without doubt, Canada’s performance in the American tourist market has been disappointing in recent years and the inexorable rise of the Canadian dollar in 2007 has only increased the level of anxiety in our industry. However, is our tourism [...]

Tags: cruises, legislation, natural-landscape, seasonal-fluctuations, tour-operators, winter

A Tourism Intelligence Network expert specialized in polar tourism, Alain A. Grenier sketches an overview of the Antarctica tourism industry. A PhD in Sociology and formerly an associate professor at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, he is now a professor in the Department of Tourism and Urban Studies at the UQAM School of [...]

Tags: Canada, DMO, economy, indicators

Should tourism-industry growth be measured in international arrivals or in economic benefits? Which category would we rather be performing best in? Where does Canada stand in the stats? In a country-by-country comparison, we realized we were on the wrong track in trying to analyze the increase in international tourism revenues in 2004 compared to 2003. [...]

Tags: americans, Canada, excursionists, Quebec, travel-behavior

In 2004, Americans once again began travelling to foreign destinations in large numbers, but they seem to have ignored Canada. The number of U.S. international tourists ?all destinations combined ? reached a record high of 61.8 million that year, surpassing the previous record set in 2000. And yet, since the new millennium, Canada has noted [...]

Tags: economy, exchange-rates, indicators, solo-travellers

Everyone – those in the industry, government bodies, academics, journalists and more – uses statistics from the World Tourism Organization and Statistics Canada, thereby contributing to the dissemination of this data. However, a closer look at these statistics reveals that things are not always what they seem. Methodological considerations aside, here are a few examples [...]

Tags: canadians, indicators, travel-intentions

The increased number of polls used to determine travel intentions has contributed to the tools used by industry decision-makers. Unfortunately, the existence of more surveys has not necessarily translated into a more accurate portrait of the future. In fact, a look back uncovers major discrepancies between Canadian travel intentions and actual travel. It is common [...]