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Canadian residents took 4.8 million trips abroad in December, up 2.3% from November. The majority of these trips (4.1 million) were to the United States, up 3.3% in December.
Same day car travel by Canadian residents to the United States increased 6.7% from November to 2.3 million trips in December. This was the highest figure since November 2007.
At the same time, overnight car travel by Canadian residents to the United States declined 2.6% to 1.0 million trips. Overnight travel by plane rose 1.1% from November to 592,000 trips in December.
While the Canadian dollar averaged 99.2 US cents in December, it ended the month above parity at US $1.01.
Canadian residents took 760,000 overnight trips to overseas countries in December, down 2.5% compared with November.
Overall, travel to Canada declined 1.2% to 2.0 million trips.
Travel from the United States declined 1.6% to 1.7 million trips in December. Overnight plane travel by American residents posted the largest decline, down 6.8% compared with November. Same-day car travel also fell in December, as US residents took 600,000 trips to Canada during the month, down 0.6% from November.
Overseas residents took 359,000 overnight trips to Canada in December, up 0.6% compared with November. Among the top 12 overseas markets, 7 recorded increases. The number of trips by residents of India (+16.6%) and Japan (+14.4%) recorded the largest increases in December. In contrast, travel from the United Kingdom was down 7.4% and travel from the Netherlands fell by 7.7%.
Note: Monthly data are seasonally adjusted.
Available on CANSIM: tables 427-0001 to 427-0006.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 5005.
The December 2010 issue of International Travel, Advance Information, Vol. 26, no. 12 (66-001-P, free), is now available from the Key resource module of our website under Publications.
For more information, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-800-307-3382; 613-951-9169; fax: 613-951-2909; tourism@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Frances Kremarik (613-951-4240; frances.kremarik@statcan.gc.ca), Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics Division.
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