CANADIAN VISITOR SPENDING

The Christmas season sampling of Canadian visitors utilized a survey conducted at retail stores, restaurants, gas stations, and motels/hotels, a change from only retail in the previous replications. This change makes the winter survey as comprehensive as the summer season sampling. This change has affected the responses, particularly in length of stay, spending per trip, and categories of spending queries. Future Canadian visitor spending surveys, Christmas and Summer seasons, will utilize the combined group of businesses representing retail and tourism.