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September 13, 2022TOURISM ACTIVITY TRACKER, JUNE 2022 In June 2022, Nova Scotia's tourism activity was 19.1% below June 2019 levels. Domestic tourism activity was 8.6% below June 2019 levels. International inbound tourism activity in Nova Scotia was 48.8% below June 2019 levels.
Nova Scotia reported the second largest decline among provinces in domestic tourism activity as well as the third largest decline in overall and international inbound tourism activity.
Overall tourism activity in Canada was down 17.2% compared to June 2019. British Columbia and New Brunswick reported the largest declines while Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan reported the lowest decline.
Canada's domestic tourism activity was down 6.1%, with Newfoundland and Labrador actually registering higher domestic tourism activity than in June 2019. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia reported the largest declines in domestic tourism activity from June 2019 to June 2022.
International inbound tourism activity was down 40.0% nationally with the largest declines in Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia. Quebec reported the least decline in international inbound tourism activity from June 2019 to June 2022, but this was still a drop of 29.7%.
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.
Tourism activity levels were at their highest level since February 2020 for most provinces in June 2022, including Nova Scotia.
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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