Tourism Nova Scotia gathers and reports tourism statistics on behalf of the tourism industry. These statistics help inform their decision-making process, help describe visitors to Nova Scotia, and can be used by tourism businesses and organizations for planning and business development.

Accommodations operators across the province report that 397,000 room nights were sold as of the end of April 2020. This represents a decrease of 31%, or 178,000 fewer room nights sold, compared with January to April 2019.

The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is evident in the sharp decline in room nights sold in April. There was a decrease in room nights sold of 75% compared with April 2019.

Monthly and regional breakdowns of accommodations data for January to April 2020 are now available at https://tourismns.ca/research/tourism-statistics.