January – March 2022 Tourism Performance

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Tourism activity continued to rebound in the first three months of 2022.

According to statistics gathered by Tourism Nova Scotia, the province welcomed 144,000 visitors between January and March 2022, up 198% or 96,000 visitors compared with the same months in 2021. Visitation for the period was down 56% or 186,000 visitors compared to pre-pandemic 2019.

See YTD March Visitation Statistics

Accommodations operators report 369,000 room nights sold between January and March, a 45% increase over the same three months in 2021 (up 115,000 room nights sold) and a decline of 11% from the same period in 2019 (down 45,000 room nights sold).

See YTD March 2022 Accommodation Statistics

Please note, we've updated the statistics pages on our website to make sure all visitation-related data is together. Accommodation data continues to be on its own page. We hope this change will make it easier for you to find the information you're looking for.

Tourism Nova Scotia

Tourism Nova Scotia works with communities and industry to attract visitors to the province and increase tourism revenues through experience and sector development, business coaching, marketing, and visitor servicing.

As a division of the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage, Tourism Nova Scotia is committed to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility across Nova Scotia and we support partners who share in this commitment.

Tourism Nova Scotia is located in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq. We are all Treaty people.