The wildfires in B.C.’s interior this summer likely had an impact on local tourism, but overall tourism was up in the province in August.
The August numbers from Statistics Canada indicate a 2.3 per cent increase over the same month in 2016, resulting in 18,499 more visitors arriving in B.C. Total year-to-date international overnight custom entries to B.C. are up 2.8 per cent, resulting in 113,473 more visitors.
Destination BC has been marketing the province globally to ensure travellers are making plans to visit B.C.
Notable increases for August (over August 2016) include:
- Mexico up 18.3%
- Germany up 12.0%
- Australia up 9.8%
- France up 4.5%
- United States up 2.8%
- China up 2.6%
- South Korea up 2.0%
- Japan up 0.6%
- Asia/Pacific up 2.0%
Notable increases for year-to-date arrivals include:
- Mexico up 25.4%
- Australia up 23.0%
- Germany up 14.2%
- China up 6.9%
- Japan up 4.3%
- United Kingdom up 2.9%
- India up 1.8%
- France up 1.6%
- United States up 0.8%
- South Korea up 0.7%
- Asia/Pacific up 6.8%
- Europe up 3.5%
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