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British Columbia
Marketing Research at Tourism Vancouver has a wealth of information about the tourism sector in the city, and the travellers who visit.

Canada and the rest of the world
Statistics Canada's website contains statistical information that pertains to tourism.
The Daily often includes a summary of recently released statistics that pertain to tourism.
The Products and Services section contains:

Downloadable publications, including International Travel, Travel Between Canada and Other Countries (Touriscope) (catalogue number 66-201-XIB) and Travel-log (Touriscope) (catalogue number 87-003-XIB).
Online statistics, notably the CANSIM database. Of particular interest here are data on travel (travel to and from Canada by country of origin), and the industries that provide services to tourists: accommodation, food and beverage service, and amusement and recreation service industries.

The Canadian Tourism Commission has a website that includes some statistics and research reports in the "CTX Business Centre" section.
The site also contains ordering information for tourism publications.

The World Tourism Organization (WTO) has an online statistics service and many tourism statistics publications; descriptions and ordering information can be found at the site.

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has some "key statistics" from a global perspective, a "travel and tourism tax barometer" (measuring taxation by 52 world destinations, including Vancouver), and many other research papers.

Tourism research links, courtesy of Tourism Montreal.

Other tourism sites of interest: British Columbia
These sites do not necessarily contain any statistics, but have information about the tourism sector in British Columbia.

The Ministry of Economic Development is the provincial ministry responsible for the tourism sector.

Tourism British Columbia is the provincial Crown corporation responsible for "promoting British Columbia as a preferred travel destination to the world."

BC Parks, a division of the Ministry of Environment, has a statistics page which includes visitation statistics.

Other tourism sites of interest: elsewhere
Australian Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources has statistics on tourism in Australia.

Other Sources of Statistical Data

Transportation/Trade
BC Ferries
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Port of Vancouver: Trade and Commodity statistics
Trade Data Online (Strategis)
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Links: Economic Development

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C.D. Howe Institute
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Human Resources and Skills Development Canada / Social Development Canada - Publications
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Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Vanier Institute of the Family

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