Statcan's Advance Travel Information Bulletin for June 2010 had good news for Canadian tourism. Visits from the United States were up 5.6% from June of last year, Europe was up 3.7%, Asia was up a stunning 33.5%. Even the beaten up Mexican inbound market did better with a drop of 38,3% compared to June 2009, but far from the disastrous drops of last year when it was down 60% in some months. It appears that Mexicans are getting used to the fact that they need visas to visit Canada and the anger of the sudden imposition of visa restrictions has subsided. Visits from South Americans were also significantly up in June 2010 with a 22.9% increase over 2009. Finally, inbound tourism from Australia and New Zealand also showed great progress with 17.9% and 21.3% growth respectively.
Let's hope that this is the beginning of a trend :-)
Jaime
Past Chair Canada-e-Connect eTourism Strategy Conference
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