Canada

Leisure car rental is expected to perform better than business car rental and insurance replacement car rental in current value terms in the forecast period. This is due to the rising number of inbound tourists and higher domestic demand. Business ...

Airlines continued to see a strong performance in Canada in 2019, with charter, low-cost carriers and scheduled airlines all seeing growth. Nevertheless, low-cost carriers saw by fact the strongest increase in terms of both passenger numbers and ...

The rising demand for hotels is being driven by the strong increase in the number of inbound arrivals to the country. However, with the exchange rate unfavourable for Canadians travelling abroad, the number of domestic trips is also increasing ...

Travel intermediaries have not only been using social media to advertise their services, but have also started putting emphasis on leveraging advanced technology to promote their online business. Artificial intelligence has infiltrated the travel ...

Travel in Canada saw another good year in 2019, with growth by all measures. Inbound arrivals and domestic trips were positively impacted by the weakened Canadian dollar against the US dollar, whilst outbound departures saw a slower increase for the ...

The travel landscape is changing in Canada. The total number of inbound arrivals keeps rising, but the sources of tourists are changing, as well as preferred destinations and methods of travel. The number of people arriving from Asia Pacific, for ...

Canada is one of the sustainability leaders, ranking in the top ten in four (Energy, Water, Environmental Resilience and Food & Agriculture) out of six environmental sustainability pillars. Ample renewable water, forest and fossil fuel reserves, a ...

Given its vast natural resources and status as a net energy exporter, Canada’s economy can be at the mercy of global commodity price changes, particularly the oil price. However, its export base is relatively well diversified and the economy ...

New car sales continued to decline in Canada during 2019 and this remains a major negative influence on sales in in-car entertainment. After 2018 saw annual new light vehicle sales decline for the first time in nearly a decade, 2019 brought further ...

Computers and peripherals continues to register declining sales in 2019 and this was primarily due to consumers postponing the purchase of new devices. In particular, many consumers are now in the habit of waiting for discount promotions and price ...

Over the course of the review period, Canada witnessed a major boom in the popularity of video streaming. According to one recent research study more than half of English-speaking households in Canada subscribe to at least one online video service ...

Televisions with huge screens are becoming more popular in Canada as viewing habits evolve and as prices being more affordable. Whilst 42” (107cm) digital TVs were generally considered to be enormous as recently as the start of the review period, by ...

Sales of imaging devices continued to decline in 2019 as consumers increasingly favoured smartphones as their primary devices for capturing images and video footage. The emergence of smartphones with very high-quality image capturing capabilities has...

The popularity of smartphones continued to increase in Canada in 2019. Research conducted by ComScore indicates that the average Canadian spends some 58% of total time spent online on a mobile device and this is an indication of how far smartphones ...

2019 saw further declines in demand for consumer electronics in Canada, with wearable electronics, smartphones, wireless speakers and OLED TVs among the few bright spots across the industry. The majority of the most traditional categories are already...

The advent of bigger and better smartphones continued to compromise the performance of e-readers in Canada in 2019. Consumers are finding it increasingly acceptable to read books on their smartphones and significant increases in the numbers of ...

Although wearable electronics is a relatively new category, the development of the category has now moved beyond the novelty phase and consumers are starting to accept these devices as a natural part of the consumer electronics ecosystem. Activity ...

Canada’s economy will slow, but still grow at a moderate pace in 2018. Households have adjusted consumption expenditure to moderating income growth and higher interest rates, and businesses have cut investment in response to greater global trade ...

Beer consumption has been stagnating in Canada in the last decade, although it did fare slightly better in 2018 than in the previous two years, thanks to more favourable weather in the summer for large parts of Canada and widening of the distribution...

Thanks to the naturalness and unique experience associated with it, cider experienced healthy growth in 2017-2018, albeit at an increasingly slower pace than in the 2013-2016 period, when it enjoyed double-digit growth. After years of rapid ...