Overview¹

In 2006, Québec welcomed almost 26.2 million tourists who generated $10.7 billion in revenues.

In descending order, the main clienteles come from Québec, Canada’s other provinces, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico and Japan.

Economic indicators²

Tourism is the only industry that is present in every region of Québec. It is Québec’s 5th-largest export after aircraft, aluminum, telecommunications equipment and newsprint.

It includes 29,000 businesses representing 130,000 direct jobs and 48,000 indirect jobs. Across the province, tourism accounted for 3.6% of total jobs in 2005.

Tourism generates tax revenues in the order of $1.65 billion for the government of Québec and $1.2 billion for the government of Canada.

Infrastructures and information services³

Québec has 243 tourist information centres, that welcome over 290,000 people each year. Tourisme Québec's Web site, bonjourquebec.com, receives nearly 4.1 million visitors each year. In 2007, visitor traffic to the site increased by 18%.

More than 83,000 person-nights were reserved in 2007 on bonjourquebec.com. Of this number, 36% were reserved by visitors from Québec, 26% by people from countries other than the United States, 25% by visitors from the rest of Canada and 13% by Americans.

Each year, Tourisme Québec's tourist information services handle 140,000 telephone calls (lasting an average of five minutes each) and 54,000 e-mails, and send nearly 147,000 pieces of mail.