Tourism Outlook
Travel intentions
This study examines the intentions of Canadians and residents of selected U.S. states to travel to Ontario over the next two seasons. Spring/Summer 2012 Report — Archives.
Travel Forecast Fall 2011
Ontario's travel outlook is based on an econometric model that uses the expected performance of certain economic variables over the next 5 years, and the history of how changes in these variables affected travel in the past, to predict future travel. The economic variables included in this model are: personal disposable income, travel prices, exchange rates, oil prices and GDP.
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
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| Total visits to Ontario (000') | 101,461 | 1.8% | 1.2% | 2.1% | 3.5% | 2.6% | 1.9% |
| Overnight (000) | 42,468 | -0.7% | 0.3% | 1.2% | 3.0% | 1.7% | 1.6% |
| Total visitor spending in Ontario (000') | $16,390,860 | 4.6% | 5.0% | 4.3% | 5.6% | 4.5% | 3.3% |
| Overnight visitor spending (000') | $12,097,989 | 1.7% | 4.6% | 4.5% | 5.6% | 4.4% | 3.4% |
Inbound Visits
