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2024 National Tourism Week - Fact Sheet_ITAC

6 Feb 2024

More specifically, Indigenous Cultural Tourism includes travel and hospitality experiences that meet the Indigenous tourism criteria and, in addition, incorporate a significant amount of Indigenous culture in a manner that is appropriate, respectful and true to the Indigenous culture being portrayed. [...] Indigenous tourism in Canada has a significant economic impact As of 2019, the sector included: +40,000 workers +1,700 Indigenous tourism businesses Indigenous tourism contributed: $1.9B annually to Canada’s direct GDP in 2019 (up from $1.5B in 2017) $1.1B in wages and salaries $3.7B in revenue Effects of COVID-19 on Indigenous Tourism Prior to 2020, Indigenous tourism was outpacing Canadian touri. [...] 03 Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tourism in Canada GDP Labour/Businesses Historically, Canada’s tourism sector One out of every 15 workers in Canada represents 2% of our country’s annual had a job related to tourism Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Tourism employment stood at 1,870,000 Tourism’s GDP contribution went from jobs in 2022 (down 11% from 2019) $43.6 billion in 2019 to $22 billion in 2. [...] from 2019) Permanent residents/ newcomers and youth (age 15-24) have long been a vital part of the tourism labour force -- each Tourism Demand/Spending group comprised about 30% of tourism workers in 2019 Tourism spending hit an all-time high of 218,000 businesses were in the tourism $105 billion in Canada at the end of 2019. [...] sector in 2022 (down 6.6% from 2020) By the end of 2020, this dropped to $53 billion Tourism spending in 2022 was around Economic Drivers $94 billion (down 11% from 2019) of Tourism Visitors to Canada The business meetings and events sector means big business in Canada, accounting for 242,000 direct jobs and contributing Canada welcomed a record 22 million $27.4 billion in direct GDP in 2019 inter.
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Authors

Lindsay Kelly

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6
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Canada