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June 10, 2022TOURISM ACTIVITY TRACKER, MARCH 2022 In March 2022, Nova Scotia's tourism activity was 35.2% below March 2019 levels. Domestic tourism activity was 25.3% below March 2019 levels. International inbound tourism activity in Nova Scotia was 69.8% below March 2019 levels. Nova Scotia reported the largest declines among provinces in international, domestic and overall tourism activities.
Overall tourism activity in Canada was down 29.1% compared to March 2019. Quebec (-22.1%) reported the least decline while Nova Scotia report the largest decline. Canada's domestic tourism activity was down 18.9% (least decline: Prince Edward Island; largest decline: Nova Scotia) while international inbound tourism activity was down 56.8% nationally (least declines Quebec and Alberta; largest decline: Nova Scotia).
With travel and activity restrictions at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism activity fell dramatically in all provinces. Activity partially recovered in the summer and fall of 2020, as domestic tourism started to grow again (international inbound tourism remained well below 2019 levels). Additional restrictions and travel limitations in the spring of 2021 reduced tourism activity again, particularly domestic tourism. As restrictions were eased in the summer of 2021, there was a sharp rebound in tourism activity across all provinces, driven primarily by domestic tourism. Tourism activity had been recovering at a slower pace since the summer of 2021 to December. With the emergence of the Omicron variant and reinstatement of restrictions, tourism activity fell in January 2022, but has subsequently recovered as restrictions were eased at the beginning of spring.
Notes: Statistics Canada's "Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker" illustrates the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism activity. The data compares the latest reference period and the same month in 2019, prior to the pandemic. This provides a snapshot of how tourism activity has changed, including air travel, surface travel, hotels/accommodations, spending and trip duration. Tourism activity is monitored for both domestic travellers (those travelling within Canada, including within province more than 40 km from home) as well as inbound travellers from international sources. Overall tourism is estimated as a weighted average of domestic and inbound tourism activities.
Source: Statistics Canada. Table 24-10-0049-01 Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker and Grouped Data Sources, Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker
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