The World Travel and Tourism Council says the sector will come within sight of pre-pandemic levels of activity in Canada this year, but won’t match 2019 numbers until next year as bottled-up demand is uncorked across the globe.
The international trade group forecasts that travel and tourism’s economic output in Canada will reach $138-billion in 2022, 88 per cent of pre-pandemic figures.Council chief executive Julia Simpson says businesses can finally breathe a sigh of relief as the sector recovers from two years of border restrictions and nosediving demand.
The Canadian tourism industry lost 300,000 of its 1.7 million jobs in 2020 before recovering more than a third of them last year. But the trade organization says employment levels are set to grow at only three per cent this year to 1.5 million jobs in total. Your time is valuable. Have the Top Business Headlines newsletter conveniently delivered to your inbox in the morning or evening.
That’s great news. How many Canadian restaurants are serving tourists Canadian food? Bisson/Buffalo is an excellent food source. Been in Canada before Canada became the wonderful country we are.
It might help if 5 million Canadians were actually allowed to travel by plane or train... just saying....
Probably because nobody wants to go into covid jail for 2 weeks..... Canada has had 0 good press in the last 2 years.
This is catsa_gc's fault.