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NEWS RELEASE
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Anthony Pollard, PresidentHotel Association of CanadaTel: (613) 237-7149Cell: (613) [email protected] For Immediate Release:
More Cross-Border Shopping for Less Expensive Airline TicketsLatest Results From 2012 Canadian Travel Intentions Survey
February 29, 2012 - Ottawa -When Canadians start making their travel plans this year, the first place more thana third of them will be going to is the U.S. to buy cheaper airline tickets says data released today from the HotelAssociation of Canadas (HAC) 2012 Canadian Travel Intentions Survey.
Fifteen per cent of survey respondents said they travelled to the U.S. for cheaper airline tickets in 2011, with thehighest numbers coming from the provinces of Ontario (21%) and British Columbia (19%) and in the 35-44 agecategory (23%). A further thirty three per cent said they plan on cross border shopping for cheaper air fares in2012 and an alarming sixty seven per cent of respondents said they knew people who travelled to the U.S. in2011 to purchase cheaper airline tickets.
Almost half of all Canadians are now either travelling to the U.S. for deals on airline tickets or thinking aboutdoing it in 2012 and almost seven in ten Canadians know people who have cross border shopped for cheaperairline tickets, said Tony Pollard, President of the Hotel Association of Canada. This trend is the result of themounting burden of taxes and fees imposed on the aviation sector that discourages competition and drives upcosts including airport rents, Air Traveller Security charges, NAV CANADA fees and airport improvementfees. This trend amounts to millions of Canadian travellers finding the price of Canadian tickets more expensivethan the cost of driving to the U.S. and flying from airports like Buffalo, Detroit, Plattsburg, Bellingham,Bangor, Seattle, Syracuse or Grand Forks.
The HAC believes that the travel and tourism sector requires a fair tax and regulatory regime that allows it tocompete on a level playing field with the rest of the world and recommends that the federal governmentundertake a comprehensive review of the aviation cost structure in Canada.
The survey of Canadian travellers is the eighth annual Canadian Travel Intentions study undertaken by theHotel Association of Canada. This survey was fielded by Opinion Search and defines a traveller as someonewho will stay at least one night in a hotel, motel or resort. The online survey was conducted in the last week ofJanuary and first week of February 2012 among 1518 likely travellers with a margin of error of +/- 2.5%.
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About the Hotel Association of Canada
The Hotel Association of Canada is the national voice and resource for the Hotel and Lodging Industry inCanada. For nearly 100 years, it has worked to enhance the prosperity of the Canadian Hotel and LodgingIndustry through strong member engagements, effective government advocacy, and the provision of valueadded programs and services. The Hotel Association represents more than 8,400 hotels, motels and resorts thatencompass the $16 billion Canadian hotel industry which employs 284,000 people across Canada.
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