Tourism is the activities of people travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for leisure, business or other purposes for not more than one consecutive year. Tourism is a dynamic and competitive industry that requires the ability to adapt constantly to customers’ changing needs and desires, as the customer’s satisfaction, safety and enjoyment are particularly the focus of tourism businesses. It has become an important, even vital, source of income for many regions and even entire countries. Tourism brings large amounts of income into a local economy in the form of payment for goods and services needed by tourists. City tourism is one of the fastest growing travel segments worldwide and the changing nature of city tourism becomes increasingly apparent in many cities. Canada is no exception. It is the world's secondlargest country by total area with the majority of its land area dominated by forest and tundra. Consequently, its population is highly urbanized, with 82 percent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border. All of this resulted in city tourism becoming the most important form of tourism in Canada. The focus of this paper are 8 cities in Canada and their importance for Canadian tourism.