Travel by Canadians fell again in October, down 26.3 percent to 2.3 million return trips compared with the same month last year, monthly data showed.
travel data from Statistics Canada.
Canadians made about the same number of return trips from the United States last year.
as residents continued to avoid their southern neighbor as cold weather approached.
Travel to and from the United States accounted for 70.1% of all international trips taken by Canadian residents in October.
Return trips from the U.S. by car for the month fell 30.2 percent to 1.6 million, while air trips fell 15.1 percent to 685,100 trips compared with the previous year.
Meanwhile, travel to Canada by US residents rose three percent to 1.8 million. October marked the first increase in eight straight months of year-over-year declines.
Arrivals by car were unchanged, while arrivals by air rose 6.3% year-on-year to 448,000 trips. The number of U.S. residents disembarking cruise ships in Canada in October was 122,800, up 22.2 percent from 2024.
Travel to Canada by foreigners increased by 11.7%. Of the 549,000 foreign residents who arrived in Canada in October, 81 percent arrived by air.
The main contributors to the year-over-year increase in international visitors to Canada were Europe, up 10.5%, and Asia, up 14.9%.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, U.S. resident arrivals to Canada were up 1.5 percent, while foreign resident arrivals were up 2.5 percent.
Overall, return trips by Canadians from abroad increased by 9.1 percent compared to a year earlier. Seasonally adjusted, they rose 2.3% in October.
Canadians took 997,500 return trips abroad by air, up 9.6 per cent from last year.
