Tourism Vancouver says 2017 was a record year for visitors

More than 10.3 million people visited Vancouver in 2017, according to Tourism Vancouver’s data.
That’s a new record, the fourth year in a row our city has seen a new record, the agency said Tuesday in a media release.
Last year’s total of 10,345,867 people was an increase of 3 per cent over 2016, they say.
Visitors from Australia grew 20.4 per cent year over year (there were 238,823 in 2017), the biggest such single-country increase. China was the second-biggest riser, up 7.1 p