Travel Survey of Residents of Canada, 2011: Visit File (Preliminary)

The Travel Survey of Residents of Canada (TSRC) is a major source of data used to measure the size and status of Canada's tourism industry. It was developed to quantify the volume, the characteristics and the economic impact of domestic travel. For the system of national accounts, TSRC measures the size of domestic travel in Canada from the demand side. Since the beginning of 2005, the TRSC replaces the Canadian Travel Survey (CTS). Featuring several definitional changes and a new questionnaire, this survey provides estimates of domestic travel that are more in line with the international guidelines recommended by the World Tourism Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Statistical Commission. Please see Appendix D for differences between the CTS and the TSRC. In 2011, the TRSC underwent a redesign. Please see Appendix C for the differences between the 2006-2010 TSRC and the redesign 2011 TSRC. The TSRC is sponsored by Statistics Canada, the Canadian Tourism Commission, the provincial governments, two federal organizations and a consortium of Canadian cities. The objectives of the survey are: to provide information about the volume of trips, visits and expenditures for Canadian residents by trip origin, destination, duration, type of accommodation used, trip reason, mode of travel, etc.; to provide information on travel incidence; to provide the socio-demographic profile of travellers and non-travellers. Estimates allow quarterly analysis at the national, provincial and tourism region level (with varying degrees of precision) on: total volume of same-day and overnight trips taken by Canadians in Canada or with an international destination where at least one night of the trip was spent in Canada. same-day and overnight visits in Canada main purpose of the trip/key activities done while on trip spending on same-day and overnight trips taken in Canada by Canadian residents in total and by category of expenditure, modes of transportation (main/other) used on the trip visits and spending in total and by expense category for each location visited in Canada (a location is defined as either the main destination, or a place where 1 or more nights was spent) nights spent in each location visited in Canada, in total and by type of accommodation used use of travel packages and associated spending and source of payment (household, public and private employer) demographics of adults that took or did not take any trips travel party composition There are three files for this survey - Trip File, Visit File, and Person File. The difference between the Preliminary version (released January 2013) and the Final version (released March 2013) is the geography variables: the Tourism Region variable was removed from the Final version.