Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping travel and hospitality in Canada. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.
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238 of 2,706 tracked companies have open roles.
35 of 2,706 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 36 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 86.3% of disclosed capital, while 98.7% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $500K | 57 | 1 |
| 2017 | $1.09M | 79 | 1 |
| 2018 | $394.52K | 72 | 2 |
| 2019 | $0 | 124 | 0 |
| 2020 | $320.86K | 112 | 3 |
| 2021 | $411.79M | 93 | 5 |
| 2022 | $100.82M | 69 | 4 |
| 2023 | $8.91M | 48 | 4 |
| 2024 | $11.11M | 4 | 8 |
| 2025 | $10.48M | 0 | 4 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
47 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in travel and hospitality company rounds since 2016.
Backed by lacapitale and Invest Quebec and others.
Backed by Canso Investment Counsel.
Backed by Desjardins.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by Raven Indigenous Capital Partners.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
The measured Canada identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: world_filings_distributed exposes no reviewed Canadian national-ID key; none of the designated Canadian identities carried a CIK.
How the Canada companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
32 of the 2,709 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (1.2%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 256,939 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldatlasworldatlas.com | 14,262,790 | 77 | 90.5% |
| Air Canadaaircanada.com | 13,605,782 | 79 | 50.1% |
| WestJetwestjet.com | 4,574,507 | 71 | 60.5% |
| Four Seasonsfourseasons.com | 3,758,723 | 78 | 62.8% |
| Porter Airlinesflyporter.com | 2,161,705 | 61 | 63.1% |
| Ttcttc.ca | 2,141,464 | 64 | 79.4% |
| Air Transatairtransat.com | 2,121,781 | 66 | 70.5% |
| Montreal Transport Companystm.info | 1,976,880 | 65 | 81.6% |
| VIA Railviarail.ca | 1,832,736 | 62 | 61.9% |
| Flairflyflair.com | 1,412,641 | 57 | 46.1% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
64 of these companies (2.4%) publish at least one Android app — 79 apps in all, carrying 16.4M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Canada + AeroplanAir Canada | 6.7M | 4.4 | Travel & Local |
| WestJetWestJet | 4.3M | 1.8 | Travel & Local |
| Air Transat | Flights & TravelAir Transat | 1.5M | 4.5 | Travel & Local |
| SunwingSunwing | 963.8K | 3.6 | Travel & Local |
| Porter AirlinesPorter Airlines | 471.1K | 4.7 | Travel & Local |
| VIA Rail CanadaVIA Rail | 414.3K | 3.5 | Travel & Local |
| Park’N Fly Canadapark `n fly canada | 335K | 2.1 | Travel & Local |
| Parks Canada AppPc | 282.4K | 3.7 | Travel & Local |
| MyParkingCalgary Parking | 271.4K | 1.9 | Maps & Navigation |
| RTC’s real-time NomadeRtcquebec | 269K | 4.5 | Maps & Navigation |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passenger Airlines | 7 | 13M | Air Canada + Aeroplan 6.7M | |
| Travel Agencies | 10 | 5.6M | WestJet 4.3M | |
| Online Travel | 2 | 963.9K | Sunwing 963.8K | |
| Parking Services | 3 | 608.6K | Park’N Fly Canada 335K | |
| Bus Operators | 15 | 553.7K | RTC’s real-time Nomade 269K | |
| Hotels | 10 | 263.3K | Four Seasons Hotels 251.7K | |
| Tour Operators | 9 | 79.1K | Edmonton 311 71.9K | |
| Car Rentals | 8 | 69.1K | Y-Drive App 42.6K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 73 of 79 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Cargojet Inc. has entered into an agreement to divest its minority investment in 21 Air LLC, the Miami-based air cargo operator in which it bought a 25% stake in 2021.
Chorus Aviation Inc. has announced an agreement to acquire Kadex Aero Supply (Kadex)...
Avmax Group has acquired Condor Aircraft Accessories, a component repair and overhaul specialist based in Calgary.
For the past year, Mr. Péladeau has tried at least five times to buy the Quebec company, without success.
On September 22, 2025, the Company announced a strategic acquisition and entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Royal Camp Services Ltd. The Company anticipates completing the acquisition prior to the end of 2025.
Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor to Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) in its acquisition of a minority equity interest in Canadian airline WestJet Airlines Ltd. from Onex Partners and affiliated funds (Onex Group).
the acquisition of Key Travel’s European operation by Canada’s Globespan Travel Management
Direct Travel – which acquired Canada’s Vision Travel in 2017 — was itself acquired last year by an investment group led by Steve Singh.
issued in a non-brokered private placement in June and July 2023 which raised gross proceeds of $1,140,000 (the "2023 Debenture Financing").
For nearly 15 years, CDPQ has played a major role in supporting Germain Hotels at three key moments in its expansion across Canada, adding Kim Thomassin, Executive Vice-President and Head of Québec at CDPQ. By leading this new round of financing, ...
Top 10 categories among 775 recorded events in the 24-month window.
1 companies with recorded IPO activity
IPO1 reports
23 tracked people moves
Departure private sector post
Departure Previously Chief Executive Officer
Retirement Previously President and CEO
Departure Previously Chief Commercial Officer
Departure Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Director, Market Development of Quebec
Retirement
Appointment Venture Partner
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Rental payment loyalty feature
Composable Commerce Platform
Air cargo service
Revenue Management
Hybrid self-loading/unloading vessel
27 recorded customer wins
Customer: Great Vision HK ExpressLogistics
Customer: caldaAviation
Customer: Air Transat pilotsAirline sector
Customer: Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA)Aviation
Customer: Airline Pilots AssociationAviation
Customer: dublin airportInfrastructure
4 companies with reported reductions
Scale not stated rolesconsolidation
400 rolesstreamline operations
80 rolesfinancial difficulties
13 rolesindustrial incident
12 recorded events
licensed to operate flights to the Dominican Republic, Aruba and BarbadosCanadian Transportation Agency
approved extension of Repayment DayTSX Venture Exchange
pending final regulatory approval
ordered back to work by 2 p.m. SundayCanada Industrial Relations Board
1 tracked suits
BonBon rewards program disputeCivil · Filed
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 130 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cargojet→21 air | Announced | 2026-04-03 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Chorus Aviation→kadex aero supply | Announced | 2026-02-15 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Avmax→Condor Aircraft Accessories | 2026-01-30 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| Pierre Karl Péladeau→Transat ↗ | Rumored | 2025-12-15 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Delta Air Lines, Korean Air, and Air France-KLM→WestJet ↗ | Completed | 2025-10-23 | Not stated in snapshot |
| korean air→WestJet ↗ | Completed | 2025-10-23 | $220.0M |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
3,660 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 6,177-posting snapshot covers 200 employers.
2 tracked postings mention remote work.
1,366 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 6,177 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 581 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Metrolinx ↗ | 11 |
| 407 etr ↗ | 11 |
| Easton’s Group of Hotels ↗ | 11 |
| Silver Hotel Group ↗ | 11 |
| Hertz ↗ | 11 |
| KF Aerospace ↗ | 11 |
| Voyago ↗ | 11 |
| nav canada ↗ | 11 |
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Air Canada ↗ | 30,000 |
| Impark ↗ | 8,700 |
| Air Transat ↗ | 7,170 |
| gateway casinos ↗ | 7,000 |
| Expedia Cruises ↗ | 6,400 |
| Metrolinx ↗ | 5,788 |
| nav canada ↗ | 2,662 |
| Porter Airlines ↗ | 2,200 |
130 founders and chief executives across 125 companies.
Top Aces. Royal Roads University MBA
Unfiltered Athletes, ex-BOMBARDIER. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy MEng 2017, Polytechnique Montreal MEng 2017
Royal Roads University, ex-Raven Institute, ex-British Columbia Aviation Council Bcac, Fielding Graduate University, 2026
ex- Bondwest.
Travly, ex-Global Creative Technology, Co-Founder Phros. University of Waterloo BASc 2022
Skylight Intelligence Corp., Twenty31 Consulting, Ex-Booz Allen Hamilton, Bristol-Myers Squibb. Boston University Questrom School of Business BSBA…
Ex-Norwest Venture Partners, Xero, Co-Founder TaxiNow, Xero, Sage, Scotiabank, Investor Economics, Suncor Energy. McGill University BCom 1997…
Chainpatrol, ex-Ontario Ancestors The Ontario Genealogical Society, ex-Yspace York University, York University - Schulich School of Business
Ex - CEO Dufry Group, CEO gategroup, RCOO EMEA and Asia Dufry, CFO AREAS. Esade Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) 1993…
Ex-Grassfed Capital, The Drake Hotel, eHealth, Guardian Insurance. University of Toronto 1990, Athabasca University MBA 2004
Uniglobe Travel International Limited Partnership, ex-International Franchise Association, Southampton University
Ex-Vancouver Film School, The Art Institute of Vancouver, BCTV, Odeon Films. Simon Fraser University BFA 1995
9 profiles with education records.
0 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
1,307,010 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Travel and Hospitality coverage across Canada · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 349,393 |
| 2021Q3 | 362,208 |
| 2021Q4 | 360,704 |
| 2022Q1 | 376,459 |
| 2022Q2 | 372,247 |
| 2022Q3 | 389,855 |
| 2022Q4 | 434,247 |
| 2023Q1 | 448,119 |
| 2023Q2 | 440,156 |
| 2023Q3 | 400,390 |
| 2023Q4 | 351,315 |
| 2024Q1 | 356,513 |
| 2024Q2 | 345,696 |
| 2024Q3 | 322,406 |
| 2024Q4 | 337,129 |
| 2025Q1 | 517,045 |
| 2025Q2 | 321,739 |
| 2025Q3 | 839,807 |
| 2025Q4 | 133,930 |
| 2026Q1 | 174,775 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
914 recorded company events across 34 companies; percentages use that event total.
Travel and Hospitality coverage across Canada · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Travel and Hospitality coverage across Canada
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| multilateral diplomacy | 998 | 686 | 45% |
| angel investors | 967 | 368 | 163% |
| ice sports | 837 | 220 | 280% |
| investment deal | 760 | 399 | 90% |
| wto rulings | 711 | 364 | 95% |
| share price | 601 | 418 | 44% |
| faa investigation | 599 | 278 | 115% |
| national security strategy | 586 | 374 | 57% |
| public offering | 557 | 391 | 42% |
| ski competitions | 551 | 278 | 98% |
| tariff negotiations | 5,867 | 14,256 | -59% |
| free trade deals | 2,912 | 5,959 | -51% |
| trade dispute mechanisms | 2,738 | 4,342 | -37% |
| bilateral trade | 1,790 | 3,276 | -45% |
| preferential tariff | 1,164 | 3,052 | -62% |
Travel and Hospitality coverage across Canada
tariff negotiations, free trade deals, trade dispute mechanisms
35.4% critical · 35.1% positiveangel investors, investment deal, trade deficits fx
28.0% critical · 42.4% positiveleague expansion news, nba expansion teams, earnings report
26.3% critical · 46.5% positiveTravel and Hospitality coverage across Canada. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
32.5% across the displayed hubs
25 companies hiring · $1.3M disclosed funding
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16.5% across the displayed hubs
14 companies hiring · $112.6M disclosed funding
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15.5% across the displayed hubs
10 companies hiring · $45.3M disclosed funding
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12.4% across the displayed hubs
12 companies hiring · $80.4M disclosed funding
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7.2% across the displayed hubs
5 companies hiring · $6.9M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Ottawa ↗
6.2% across the displayed hubs
8 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Edmonton ↗
5.5% across the displayed hubs
5 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Mississauga ↗
4.3% across the displayed hubs
3 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Victoria ↗Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 6 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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