Tourisme Intelligence
THE Quebec source for information on global trends in tourism

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: 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: business, convention, customer-segmentation, exchange-rates

A panel consisting of 26 British and Australian experts comments on the major trends shaping the business and convention tourism industry over the next few years. The rapidly changing economic, technological and sociopolitical contexts exert varying degrees of influence on the industry’s leaders. With ever increasing competition and an increasingly diversified product, the convention market [...]