The Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker is an experimental data product designed to help support Canadians and businesses as they navigate through the uncharted waters of a global health crisis. As part of an effort to shift from measuring impacts of the pandemic to assessing the recovery, it provides an overall picture of the relative performance of tourism-related activity in Canada over time. The Tracker combines data from numerous sources including counts of international arrivals, aircraft movements and rail passengers as well as hotel occupancy rates, restaurant sales and reservation bookings.
Weights are used to combine these various sources into a single estimate for a given month and geography. A domestic tourism value is calculated using domestic-related data, while an inbound value uses international-related sources. These two values are then combined with the level set to zero for each month in the pre-pandemic 2019 base year, both nationally and for each province. For a given month in subsequent years, a tracker value above zero indicates that tourism activity is greater than the 2019 base, while a value below zero indicates the opposite.
Information regarding the most recent edition of this tracker tool can be found in the following release of the Daily: Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker, August 2021.
Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/211108/dq211108b-eng.htm
The Daily:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/211108/dq211108b-eng.htm