January 2025
Data Collective Website
What’s New
- Advanced Search – Beta Launch: Advanced Search, a new Generative AI-powered feature, is now available for beta testing to select partners on the Data Collective platform. This enhanced search functionality delivers precise, contextually relevant results, along with linked citations and related insights for seamless exploration.
Wealth & Wellbeing Index – Preview
What’s New
- Enablement and Engagement Subindices: The Enablement and Engagement Subindices have been developed and released, providing insights into the resources and infrastructure supporting tourism growth and residents' perceptions of tourism’s contributions to their quality of life
What’s Next
- Experience Subindex: The next phase will focus on the development and release of select indicators for the Experience index, which will provide insights into tourism products, travel demand, and place brand.
TourismScapes
What’s New
- Market profile data will be updated to reflect 2023.
What’s Next
- Asset Map: Asset map will be updated to reflect tourism business subsectors and tourism business sizes in Q2 2025.
- Data Refresh: Market profile data will be updated to reflect 2024 in Q3 2025.
Lodging Aligned Spend Reporting
Important Notes
- LASR Monthly Refresh Update: The LASR data refresh schedule was temporarily adjusted, and the November and December 2024 estimates were combined and released on January 24th, 2025. Moving forward, the LASR monthly refresh will follow the regular schedule.