Demand for travel, accommodation and events picks up in May through September.
Business owners in the tourism industry can be excited that spring has sprung. It’s a time when B.C.’s tourism economy starts humming again, after a slow winter season.
Spring also leads to summer, which is the sector’s biggest season for sales and a time when operators can charge higher prices.
Some parts of the province, such as those with ski resorts, welcome ample tourists in snowy winter weather. Overall, however, tourism businesses struggle in the winter, and many across B.C. had a particularly harsh winter this year.
B.C. restaurants, pubs and bars, for example, in January saw a 2.8-per-cent decline in sales, on a seasonally adjusted basis, compared with the same month in 2023. The only other province with a year-over-year decline in sales that month for food services and drinks was Quebec, where sales fell 0.76-per-cent.
Indeed, the time when most visitors want to come to B.C….
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