B.C. tourism economy blooms as spring arrives

Business owners in the tourism industry can be excited that spring has sprung. It's a time when B.C.'s tourism economy starts humming again, after a slow winter season.

Indeed, the time when most visitors want to come to B.C. is when the weather warms and rainy days are few. The May-through-September period is when Vancouver's average high monthly temperature is at least 17 C degrees, and there are fewer than 10 days rainy days per month on average. Travel to B.C. picks up in May Last May, 2,089,986 passengers either boarded or disembarked planes at Vancouver International Airport – more passengers in a month since the previous August, and 9.4-per-cent more passengers than in April 2023, according to Vancouver Airport Authority data.

Condor Airlines' director of sales for North America, Mikko Turtiainen spoke with BIV while on board one of his airline's new Airbus A330neo planes | Glen Korstrom Last year a record 1.25 million passengers docked in Vancouver on cruises, according to the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority . In 2024, the VFPA expects that number to rise to 1.27 million passengers thanks to cruise lines operating larger ships.

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