Characteristics of international overnight travellers, 2017 (preliminary)
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Released: 2018-07-24
Canadian residents made 33.1 million overnight trips abroad in 2017, spending $42.9 billion. Just over 6 in 10 of these trips or 20.2 million were to the United States, accounting for $19.6 billion in spending.
US residents made 14.3 million overnight trips to Canada in 2017, spending $9.5 billion during their trips. Overseas residents made 6.3 million overnight trips to Canada, spending $10.7 billion.
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Please note that this is the release of the preliminary annual data for the 2017 International Travel Survey. The final annual data for the 2017 International Travel Survey will be available in mid-2019 once the historical Frontier Counts data have been revised using data from the Primary Inspection Kiosk system.
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