A visit to Canada's countryside

The vast In 2002, there were 211 million leisure tourist- majority of tourist-visits in each of predominantly visits to Canadian destinations (Figure 1) (Box B urban and intermediate regions and in for the definition of a leisure tourist and ‘tourist- predominantly rural regions were by Canadian visits’). [...] About 39 percent of the 25.6 million USA tourist- visits were in predominantly rural regions and only one-third of the 10.4 million overseas tourist- visits were in predominantly rural region in 20021. [...] Again, this is USA tourists making tourist-visits (5 percent) important for predominantly rural regions as 47 compared with the youngest tourists making percent of tourist-visits by USA tourists 55 years tourist-visits (2 percent) were to rural northern of age and older were to predominantly rural regions, in 2002. [...] Importantly for rural Figure 5 Older USA tourists were more likely to visit predominantly rural regions, 2002 Percent distribution of total tourist-visits by USA visitors 60 Under 20 years of age 20 to 54 years of age 55 years of age and over 50 40 30 20 10 0 Predominantly Intermediate All predominantly Rural metro- Rural non-metro- Rural northern urban regions regions rural regions adjacent regio [...] The proportion of older overseas tourists who Figure 6 Older overseas tourists were slightly more likely to visit a predominantly rural region, 2002 Percent distribution of total tourist-visits by overseas tourists 60 Under 20 years of age 20 to 54 years of age 55 years of age and over 50 40 30 20 10 0 Predominantly Intermediate regions All predominantly Rural metro- Rural non-metro- Rural norther