Focus on Canada and the United States: Travel

Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, March 2025

The Daily

In March 2025, Canadian residents flew back from 719,500 trips to the United States, which represented a 13.5% decline from the same month in 2024. For Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the United States, March 2025 saw a decline of 31.9% to 1.5 million.

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Table 24-10-0056-01 - Leading indicator, International visitors entering or returning to Canada by air, by country of residence and traveller type

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By air, by country of residence and traveller type

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Table 24-10-0057-01 - Leading indicator, International visitors entering or returning to Canada by land, by vehicle type, vehicle licence plate and traveller type

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By land, by vehicle type, vehicle licence plate and traveller type

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Table 24-10-0058-01 - Leading indicator, Vehicles entering Canada by land, by vehicle type and licence plate

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American-plated vehicles entering Canada

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Table 24-10-0059-01 - Leading indicator, Trucks and drivers entering or returning to Canada, by vehicle licence plate

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American-plated trucks entering Canada

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Screened passenger traffic at Canadian airports, February 2025

The Daily

In February 2025, all four of the largest airports recorded year-over-year decreases in screened passenger counts for flights to the United States: Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International (-2.5%), Vancouver International (-4.7%), Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (-5.6%) and Calgary International (-3.7%).

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Table 23-10-0312-01 - Screened passenger traffic at the largest airports in Canada

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Transborder (to the United States) sector passengers

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Aircraft movement and civil aviation statistics, January 2025

The Daily

Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States) represented 10.7% of total itinerant movements at Canada's major and select small airports in 2023 and 11.1% in 2024. The four largest Canadian airports—Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International, Montréal/Pierre Elliot Trudeau International, Vancouver International, and Calgary International—have accounted for approximately 75% of all transborder traffic each year since 2022.

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Table 23-10-0302-01 - Domestic and international itinerant movements, by type of operation, at airports with NAV CANADA services and other selected airports, monthly

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Transborder aircraft movements (to and from the United States)

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Travel between Canada and other countries, January 2025

The Daily

In January 2025, Canadian residents returned from 2.7 million trips to the United States, a decrease of 2.3% from January 2024. Return trips from the United States represented 66.5% of all trips taken by Canadian residents in January 2025.

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Table 24-10-0050-01 - Non-resident visitors entering Canada, by country of residence

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By country of residence

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Table 24-10-0051-01 - Non-resident visitors entering Canada, by country of residence, seasonally-adjusted

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By country of residence, seasonally-adjusted

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Table 24-10-0052-01 - Vehicles entering Canada by land, by vehicle type and licence plate

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By vehicle type and licence plate

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Table 24-10-0053-01 - International travellers entering or returning to Canada, by type of transportation and traveller type

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By type of transportation and traveller type

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Table 24-10-0054-01 - International travellers entering or returning to Canada, by type of transportation and traveller type, seasonally-adjusted

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By type of transportation and traveller type, seasonally-adjusted

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Table 24-10-0055-01 - Non-resident visitors entering Canada, by country of residence, mode of transportation, arrival type and traveller type

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By country of residence, mode of transportation, arrival type and traveller type

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Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, February 2025

The Daily

In February 2025, Canadian residents flew back from 585,700 trips to the US, which represented a 13.1% decline from the same month in 2024. For Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the US, February 2025 saw a steep decline of 23.0% year over year to 1.2 million.

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Table 24-10-0065-02 - Trips and spending per trip for visitors from United States of America to Canada, by mode of transport, percent change

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Trips and spending per trip for visitors from United States of America to Canada, by mode of transport, percent change

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Table 24-10-0045-01 - Travel by Canadian residents in Canada and abroad by trip purpose

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Travel by Canadian residents in Canada and abroad by trip purpose

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Table 24-10-0064-01 - Trips, nights and spending for visitors to Canada, by residency, trip purpose and mode of transport

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By residency, trip purpose and mode of transport

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Table 24-10-0066-01 - Visits, nights and spending for visitors to Canada by geography of visit, residency and mode of transport

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By geography of visit, residency and mode of transport

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Screened passenger traffic at Canadian airports, January 2025

The Daily

Passengers screened for transborder (to the United States) flights at the eight largest Canadian airports represented 26.1% of the total screened passengers in 2023 and 27.4% of such passengers in 2024.

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Travel between Canada and other countries, December 2024

The Daily

In 2024, Canadian residents took 39.0 million trips to the United States, an increase of 4.4% from 2023. Meanwhile, US residents took 23.4 million trips to Canada in 2024 (+10.7% from 2023), over half of which were trips by automobile.

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Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, January 2025

The Daily

In January, the number of Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from visits to the United States totalled 1.5 million, a decline of 0.9% compared with the same month one year earlier.

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Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard

Interactive dashboard

The Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard provides access to data on the number of border crossings in an interactive and customizable format. The counts include only those travelling for tourism-related purposes.

Data visualization

Glossary: Frontier Counts

Glossary

Definitions for terms used in Frontier Counts are based on the United Nations World Tourism Organization's International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008. However, in some cases, they are modified to align with the Canadian context.

Reference

Conceptual relationship between travellers, visitors, excursionists and tourists as defined by the Frontier Counts program

Documentation

Frontier Counts - Documentation

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