Gives various statistics and figures about the canadian tourism industry, specifically on toronto, montreal and the province of British Columbia.

Canada has become known to the rest of the world as a tourism hot-spot. Tourism spending reached $54.1 billion in 2000, an 8% increase from 1999. However, $37.9 billion were spent by Canadians in foreign Canadian cities; the remaining $16.2 is spent by foreigners. Various reasons account for such figurative spending on tourism. Thus the major reason for tourism in Canada is people holiday/vacation (56%), visiting friends or family (9%), business (5%), and other reasons (3%). Three major destinations can be recognized as the …

…destinations. Along with the rich history of each of the aforementioned locations in Canada, it is obvious that education and fun can be combined adequately for each tourist to have a distinctively good time according to their preference. Though most tourist making their trips to Canada are from the United States (approx. 15 million in 2000), the rich culture and creative fun is also enjoyed by people worldwide (approx. 4.1 million in 2000). (Numbers provided by Canadian Tourism Commission)