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Fly
the Air Highways to Toronto's Travel & Leisure
Show
\\Canada's
largest Travel & Leisure Show is located at the
International Centre, Airport Road,
Mississauga
 Location:
Toronto's International Centre is located just
north of Toronto's Pearson International Airport at
Derry Road and minutes from downtown via highways
401 and 427. It is close to major hotels and car
friendly with FREE PARKING. There is also direct
access to public transportation. The Travel &
Leisure Show opens up a world of travel
opportunities, no matter what your holiday dreams.
The International Centre can be easily reached by
direct GO Transit bus service from Yorkdale and
York Mills subway stations.
There are free
seminars on a wide range of destinations will run
throughout the Show. Continuous international live
entertainment sets a holiday mood on the Travel
& Leisure Show's Main Stage.
http://www.travelandleisureshow.com
Facts: Toronto lies
on the shore of Lake Ontario, the easternmost of
the Great Lakes. Home to more than 2 million
people, the city is the key to one of North
America's most vibrant regions, the Greater Toronto
Area (GTA). 4.5 million Canadians live in the GTA,
the cultural, entertainment, and financial capital
of the nation. The city is also the seat of the
Ontario government.
That is why Toronto abounds
in investment and employment opportunities in such
diverse fields as banking and financial services,
film and television production, and fashion, and
also boasts a thriving arts community.
3,939 people per square km.
Toronto covers 632 sq.km.
and is located on the northwest shore of Lake
Ontario
One third of Canada's
population is located within 160 km radius of
Toronto.
One half of the population
of the United States is within one day's drive of
Toronto
Business/Economic
Development
Toronto is Canada's gateway
to the international market place. Thanks to NAFTA
and other international agreements, Toronto is
positioned to become the hub for goods, services
and people throughout the western hemisphere. The
city offers maximum accessibility to all parts of
its region via modern highways, air, rail and urban
transit. The city is the region's financial,
commercial and administrative core. By maintaining
high quality housing, day care, schools, social
services and policing, our downtown core has
remained vital, strong and safe. Toronto is a city
where people of different ethnic and economic
backgrounds live side-by-side in neighbourhoods and
communities. As long as Toronto's urban core
remains vibrant, its streets safe and its citizens
secure, the entire area will enjoy a competitive
advantage internationally.
Toronto voted best global
City for business, (Fortune, 1996)
Financial centre of Canada,
4th largest in North America, employing 125,000 in
financial sector
Home to 90 per cent of
Canada's foreign banks, and its top accounting and
mutual fund companies, and 80 per cent of Canada's
largest R&D, law, advertising and high-tech
firms
Known as "Silicon Valley
North" with seven of the top 10 information
technology companies, including the Canadian
headquarters and research centres of Apple,
Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems
North America's 3rd largest
Stock Exchange by value traded
75,000 businesses employ
more than 1.2 million people
40 per cent of Canadian
companies on Fortune's Global 500 are in Toronto
The nation's largest
employment centre, with one sixth of Canada's jobs,
and strong employment in both manufacturing and
service industries
The 4th highest
concentration of commercial software companies in
the world, and one of North America's hottest
animation centres
One of the best
telecommunications networks in the world, with one
of the highest percentage of fibre optic cable
installed, and more wireless phones per capita,
than anywhere in North America
Arts/Culture/Entertainment
Home to 4 professional sports teams; hockey
(www.torontomapleleafs.com), football
(www.argonauts.on.ca), basketball
(www.nba.com/raptors), baseball (www.bluejays.com)
3rd largest English-language
theatre centre in the world behind London and New
York
Considered "Hollywood North"
by film industry: 3rd in TV and film production,
and 2nd as exporter of TV programming, in North
America
Canada's #1 tourist
destination, with 21 million visitors in 1999
Toronto has four English
language dailies, The Globe and Mail, The National
Post, The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun; over 400
business periodicals, and 79 ethnic
publications
Racial Diversity
Toronto is heralded as one
of the most multicultural cities in the world
Toronto ranked as the safest
large metropolitan area in North America by Places
Rated Almanac
Toronto received 80,000
immigrants in 1997 from 169 countries
Over 100 languages are
spoken in Toronto, and one third of Toronto
residents speak at home a language other than
English
48 per cent of Toronto's
population are immigrants
Foreign-born residents
comprise more than 50 per cent of population
Infrastructure
Toronto has outstanding air,
road and rail transportation facilities, including
North America's second largest public transit
system.
Toronto has an excellent
telecommunications infrastructure in terms of
access lines with digital switching and advanced
signalling technology. Toronto is also located in
the largest flat rate calling area in the world,
and has the most fibre optic cable of any city in
North America.
National Trade Centre is the
3rd largest exhibit facility in North America with
over 1 million sq. ft. of exhibit space; the
capacity of the Toronto Convention Centre recently
doubled
Over 7,800 restaurants and
32,000 hotel rooms
North America's largest
public transit system after New York
North America's largest
continuous underground pedestrian system,
connecting 1100 stores and restaurants, 48 office
towers, 6 major hotels and several entertainment
centres
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca
Source: Toronto
Board of Trade "Profile of Toronto and the Greater
Toronto Area, 1998/99: Toronto business and market
guide".
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