Where are popular destinations if Canadians go on holiday within Canada ?

Either for weekends or full weeks ?

If they have a week or longer people from Toronto mainly go to Florida. If they have less time they go to lakes north of the city, either to a cottage or camping.

According to the newspapers most of BC is holiday homes owned by Albertans. I therefore assume people from Alberta drive to BC for their holidays. We do.

The most popular holiday destinations in Canada are airports.

In Calgary people go to the Rocky Mountains for weekends – skiing in the winter and hiking in the summer.

If they have a week or two in the summer, the neighbouring province of British Columbia is a popular destination. I second what Helen said about that. The Okanagan Valley, with its lakes and beaches, is popular. The BC coast, especially Vancouver Island, is very popular. Some people rent houseboats on the Shuswap Lake.

The Kootenay-Rockies region of BC, which is the part of BC that is closest to Calgary, is popular. It is within weekend reach of Calgary, but much of it is outside of the national parks and therefore beyond the property ownership restrictions of the national parks. Mind you, the same thing can be said of Canmore, Alberta, which is just east of Banff National Park.

If people can get away for a week or so in the winter, they like to have a warm, sunny break in a place like Arizona, Mexico, Hawaii or, occasionally, the Caribbean.

Another very popular destination, if you want somewhere warm and sunny, is Cuba.

Thanks to the replies so far, tongue in cheek ones also

In the UK nearly half must go somewhere hotter like Spain, Canaries or Italy and so their first port of call is the airport BUT millions also go on holidays and short breaks within Britain, some examples might be Devon, the Cotswolds, East Anglia, Lake District, New Forest, etc

In the beautiful spring period in Newfoundland the charter flights are full heading south to Florida, the Dominican and Cuba. During the summer however, folk head out to their cabins 'around the bay' or to places like Gros Morne or Terra Nova national parks. We go sailing.

Yes, but people don't do that here. They really do go to Florida, Arizona, Cuba, the DR, places outside Canada. North Carolina is a very popular destination for a weekend trip. Our last holiday was to Dartmoor.

People here in NS tend to head south during March school break to escape the cold weather. They fly to eg Dominican, Mexico, Florida and Cuba.

During the summer months many of them stay in Canada and enjoy the lovely weather and scenery here.

Question was within Canada.

Many living in Toronto go to Montreal/Quebec for a long weekend, cottage country in the summer. For longer holidays, BC is a very popular destination.

Yes, it was. However, the responses are suggesting that people prefer not to, unless they own a cottage.

Something to take into consideration is the size of Canada and the expense of travelling across it.

With the small amount of vacation time that many Canadians get, driving across Canada usually is not a realistic option. They often have to fly.

High volume air routes (like those to large American and European hubs and popular sun spots) are much cheaper than flights across Canada (say Regina, SK to Halifax, NS).

Canadians also have a strong desire (and I think it's a very understandable desire) to get a break from winter if they can afford it.

All joking aside Judy does have the nub of it. From the Easternmost reaches of Canada it's actually cheaper for me to get a flight to Europe for a vacation than to say BC. It's also closer!

Spot on. We went to Cuba for a week at New Year. It's about a four hour flight and came to little more than a grand each, all-inclusive. I like wearing shorts in January. From what I saw in Holguin, so do many other Canadians.