The full report highlights the positive economic impact that road warriors have on the nation’s economy and explores the quantitative impact business travel has on the Canadian economy. The study, sponsored by Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), reveals business travel spending in Canada in 2013 reached $23.5 billion making it responsible for 1.5 percent of Canadian GDP.
Highlights of the Full Report Include:
- Business travel in Canada contributed $27.2 billion in Canadian GDP – essentially every dollar spent on business travel generated about $1.16 in GDP
- More than 60 percent of all business trips in Canada were either to or within Ontario or Quebec with Toronto and Montreal leading the way
- Of the 2.6 million international inbound trips to Canada more than three-quarters of those travellers arrived from the United States
