Mainland Chinese visitors are important because they were the highest-spending international visitors pre-pandemic
B.C. is welcoming a growing number of international visitors through its entry points and is on a path to return to pre-pandemic levels.
Visitors from mainland China are leading the surge.
That is important for tourism businesses because Destination BC data holds that mainland Chinese visitors were the highest-spending international visitors pre-pandemic, laying out an estimated $2,021 per person, according to the province’s tourism marketer.
The last time the number of international visitors to Canada through B.C. fell in a month year-over-year was October, when the count fell by 2.2 per…
