It has been slow to bounce back as new COVID-19 variants and public health measures deterred domestic and foreign travellers, but as cases drop and restrictions lift there are signs of recovery across the country.
Domestic tourism activity, which compiles data such as travel movement and spending, was down 20 per cent this March compared to 2019. And international tourism activity was 57 per cent behind pre-pandemic levels. The 38-year-old family business had a banner year in 2019, Gatherall said. But 2022 is exceeding those numbers." so far, has actually been quite busy. A very healthy rebound, certainly, for our operation," he said.
While leisure travel is expected to drive this summer's recovery, he said it could be years before the city sees the full return of large-scale conferences. Those events are a big boost to local business, whether it's florists, caterers, or audio-visual companies, Weir said. The company ran tours in Ottawa, Hamilton and Toronto for 15,000 people in 2019, a record year for the 14-year-old company. By 2021, just 500 people attended a tour."And we're just getting into our peak tourism season. So I know that looking ahead, we've got a lot of bookings now for July and August, as people are planning their trips to Canada. And most of our business, for us, it's Americans.
No thanks to your fear mongering ways...
City of Toronto looks like a garbage pit. Shit and piss everywhere
End all restrictions and mandates
The airlines just said they're cutting flights to meet demand. That's kind of a problem for tourism.
Numbers are going up again though. We'll have to keep an eye out for the numbers in the I.C.U.'s. Hopefully we'll be all right.
TrudeauIsDestroyingCanada
lol... is this a joke
There's no recovery when your country is a infection that continually oozes puss!
When are you going to admit you're nothing more than a PR company for a corrupt government?
It wasn't 'pandemic-stricken' it was power drunk tyrant-stricken and not limited to the tourism industry.
Immigrants that work for a living (customer service) than there's the tourist's that are catered to by the immigrants?
yeah... right.
You misspelled 'government'-stricken