New Brunswick tourism lags behind Canadian average: report – New Brunswick | 24CA News
New numbers from Statistics Canada present that New Brunswick tourism lags behind the nationwide common when evaluating numbers from 2019.
Their newest report confirmed an enormous decline throughout Canada when evaluating numbers to pre-pandemic occasions.
New Brunswick’s tourism numbers are twice beneath the typical and are at present the worst in Atlantic Canada. The survey signifies that the province is thrice behind its closest competitor Nova Scotia, which is amongst these above the nationwide common.
The numbers present that tourism elevated in July 2020 and July 2022 by 30 per cent. Those stats nonetheless stored numbers beneath 2019 ranges, nonetheless. Tourism all through New Brunswick has but to see a lift from their 2019 numbers, the report says.
Only Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador have seen will increase from numbers three years prior.
In October 2022, New Brunswick noticed the very best distinction in numbers in all of Canada, with stats shut to 6 occasions past the nationwide common. The maritime province has been behind that statistic in almost each month since May 2022.
In a January launch, the province mentioned greater than 100,000 individuals worldwide attended the World Junior Hockey Championship video games in Moncton. Those numbers have been nonetheless effectively beneath the stats from 2022, sitting at a weighted common of -0.1557. The statistics proved to be the bottom in Canada throughout that point.
Combined Domestic and inbound tourism from January 2020 to December 2022.
Statistics Canada
While the numbers could level in the direction of a troublesome season for New Brunswick, tourism operators within the province are reveling in what they known as a profitable season following a growth in cruise tourism.
Operators informed Global News that Canadian tourism and a busy Port of Saint John created a better-than-expected summer season.
“The ships that came post-COVID were larger ships than we were used to seeing in the region,” informed Dennis Campbell, CEO of Ambassatours Gray Line, which supplies bus excursions in Saint John.
“So, we broke some records in terms of capacity and tours.”
New Brunswick Department of Tourism spokesperson Danielle Elliott informed Global News in a press release that the province “relies on its own measures to monitor activity and growth within the industry,” noting that they don’t depend on numbers from Statistics Canada.
The province “is on the path to recovery following the pandemic and positioned to resume pre-pandemic growth trends,” Elliott mentioned.
The division mentioned that they had a rise of 1.5 million guests to New Brunswick between 2021 and 2022.
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