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Leading indicator, Canadian-resident return trips from the US by air and automobile - Canada
(June 2026)1,746,1293.2%
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2,182,9005.1%
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674,3605.1%
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$16.7 billion3.0%
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8.7 million-13.0%
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$11.6 billion6.9%
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74.9 million-6.2%
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6.1 million-0.7%
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$5.9 billion12.4%
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$9.6 billion6.3%
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$3.9 billion11.7%
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$2.9 billion3.9%
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26.4 million7.3%
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- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20262043635Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2026-07-23
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023020Description: 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. The dashboard includes four visualizations: leading indicator of air arrivals, leading indicator of land arrivals, returning Canadians, and visitors to Canada.Release date: 2026-07-23
- Table: 24-10-0050-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: International travel by non-Canadian visitors coming to Canada for a trip. Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.Release date: 2026-07-23
- Table: 24-10-0050-02Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Annual estimates of international travel by non-Canadian visitors coming to Canada for a trip. Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.Release date: 2026-07-23
- Table: 24-10-0051-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
International travel by non-Canadian visitors coming to Canada for a trip. Seasonally-adjusted data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.
Release date: 2026-07-23 - Table: 24-10-0052-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: International travel to Canada by automobile (car), motorcycle, truck or other land vehicle, by port of entry (border crossing). Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.Release date: 2026-07-23
- Table: 24-10-0052-02Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Annual international travel to Canada by automobile (car), motorcycle, truck or other land vehicle, by port of entry (border crossing). Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.Release date: 2026-07-23
- Table: 24-10-0053-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: International travel by non-Canadians visitors coming to Canada for a trip, by Canadians returning from a visit abroad and by other non-tourism travellers (e.g. crew), by port of entry (e.g. airport, border crossing). This table includes breakdowns by mode of transportation (e.g. plane, automobile (car), boat) and by duration (same-day, overnight). Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.Release date: 2026-07-23
- Table: 24-10-0053-02Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Annual international travel by non-Canadians visitors coming to Canada for a trip, by Canadians returning from a visit abroad and by other non-tourism travellers (e.g. crew), by port of entry (e.g. airport, border crossing). This table includes breakdowns by mode of transportation (e.g. plane, automobile (car), boat) and by duration (same-day, overnight). Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.Release date: 2026-07-23
- Table: 24-10-0054-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
International travel by non-Canadians visitors coming to Canada for a trip, by Canadians returning to Canada from a visit abroad and by other non-tourism travellers. This table includes breakdowns by mode of transportation (e.g. plane, automobile (car)) and by duration (same-day, overnight). Seasonally-adjusted data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.
Release date: 2026-07-23
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- Table: 24-10-0073-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: QuarterlyDescription: Total spending (overall and by category) during domestic and outbound visits by Canadian resident travellers by region, country or province of visit, main trip purpose and duration of the visit, quarterly, including expenditures at the trip origin, those on commercial air transportation in Canada and those aboard international cruise ships. Statistics for the territories are combined.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 24-10-0074-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: QuarterlyDescription: Total spending (overall and by category) during domestic and outbound visits by Canadian resident travellers by region, country or province of visit, province of trip origin and duration of the visit, quarterly, including expenditures at the trip origin, those on commercial air transportation in Canada and those aboard international cruise ships. Statistics for the territories are combined.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 24-10-0075-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: QuarterlyDescription: Total spending (overall and by category) during domestic and outbound visits by Canadian resident travellers by region, country or province of visit, province of trip origin and main trip purpose, quarterly, including expenditures at the trip origin, those on commercial air transportation in Canada and those aboard international cruise ships. Statistics for the territories are combined.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Public use microdata: 24-25-0002Description: Records relate to the activities of visitors from abroad travelling within Canada: Non-residents of Canada, travellers, expenditures, length of stay, type of transportation, purpose of trip, accommodation used, places visited, and expenditure by categories.
The Visitor Travel Survey was introduced in January 2018 to replace the U.S. and overseas visitors to Canada component of the International Travel Survey.
Release date: 2025-08-25 - Public use microdata: 24-25-0001Description: Records relate to the activities of Canadians travelling within Canada and abroad: Canadian residents; travellers; expenditures; length of stay; type of transportation; purpose of trip; accommodation used; places visited; expenditure by categories.Release date: 2025-06-27
- Data Visualization: 13-609-X2017001Description: This product gathers information from various statistical programs and illustrates the nature and the extent of Canada's economic and financial relationship with the United States using interactive graphics and tables. The statistical information is presented according to four main topics: trade, investment, employment and travel. Key indicators are available for each of the topics, including merchandise trade by Canadian provinces and US states. Users can link to more detailed data as well as information regarding definitions, concepts and methods.Release date: 2025-02-05
- Data Visualization: 13-609-X2018001Description: This product gathers information from various statistical programs and illustrates the nature and the extent of Canada's economic and financial relationship with the United Kingdom using interactive graphics and tables. The statistical information is presented according to four main topics: trade, investment, employment and travel. Key indicators are available for each of the topics. Users can link to more detailed data as well as information regarding definitions, concepts and methods.Release date: 2025-02-05
- Data Visualization: 13-609-X2018002Description: This product gathers information from various statistical programs and illustrates the nature and the extent of Canada's economic and financial relationship with Japan using interactive graphics and tables. The statistical information is presented according to four main topics: trade, investment, employment and travel. Key indicators are available for each of the topics. Users can link to more detailed data as well as information regarding definitions, concepts and methods.Release date: 2025-02-05
- Data Visualization: 13-609-X2018003Description: This product gathers information from various statistical programs and illustrates the nature and the extent of Canada's economic and financial relationship with Mexico using interactive graphics and tables. The statistical information is presented according to four main topics: trade, investment, employment and travel. Key indicators are available for each of the topics. Users can link to more detailed data as well as information regarding definitions, concepts and methods.Release date: 2025-02-05
- Data Visualization: 13-609-X2018004Description: This product gathers information from various statistical programs and illustrates the nature and the extent of Canada's economic and financial relationship with China using interactive graphics and tables. The statistical information is presented according to four main topics: trade, investment, employment and travel. Key indicators are available for each of the topics. Users can link to more detailed data as well as information regarding definitions, concepts and methods.Release date: 2025-02-05
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- 11. Canadian tourism satellite account 2012 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X20163083413Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2016-11-03
- 12. Estimates of Cross-border Shopping, 2006 to 2012 ArchivedArticles and reports: 13-604-M2014076Description:
This article provides estimates on the value of cross-border shopping in the United States from 2006 to 2012, on an annual and quarterly basis. The study provides detailed values for overnight and same-day spending in the United States, postal and courier imports and motor vehicle imports. Total cross-border expenditures are compared to the Canadian retail trade sales, to provide a basis of comparison on the magnitude of these expenditures. The extent to which cross-border spending varies with movements in the Canadian/United States exchange rate is also examined. The cross-border estimates are derived from the Canadian System of National Accounts and their underlying survey and administrative data sources. The estimates are based on three different scenarios (low, medium and high) with each scenario based on different statistical assumptions. The low scenario represents the lower-bound estimates for cross-border shopping, while the high scenario represents the upper-bound estimates. The medium scenario is based on assumptions deemed to be the most plausible. All assumptions reflect professional judgement and build upon previous analysis.
Release date: 2014-10-08 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X20133313262Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2013-11-27
- Articles and reports: 11-010-X200701210464Geography: Geographical region of CanadaDescription:
This paper examines whether cross-border shopping has taken flight with the loonie. It finds that measured by the number of trips to the US, the average spent per trip or even online purchases, the recent increase in cross-border shopping has been minimal, especially outside of Ontario. More notable is the drop in US visitors to Canada. Meanwhile, overseas travel in and out of Canada continues to grow rapidly.
Release date: 2007-12-13 - 15. The soaring loonie and international travel ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-010-X20050027773Geography: Canada, Province or territoryDescription:
The close link between our exchange rate and cross-border shopping has broken down since 2002. More broadly, this is part of a worldwide slump in travel to the US. Meanwhile, travel to Canada from overseas has risen sharply. The increasingly Asian source of this travel has favoured Western Canada as a destination.
Release date: 2005-02-10 - Articles and reports: 87-003-X20050017825Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article presents a trend analysis of the tourism trade balance between Canada and the United States using data from the International Travel Survey. Specifically, the article is an attempt to identify the factors or travel characteristics that had the greatest effect on the tourism trade balance since 1991. Pre-1991 data are not considered. The study focuses exclusively on travel between Canada and the United States because the U.S. contributes more than any other country to Canada's international travel receipts and is the country where Canadian travellers spend the most outside Canada.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - 17. Travel-log (Touriscope) ArchivedJournals and periodicals: 87-003-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
Travel-log is a quarterly tourism newsletter that examines international travel trends, international travel accounts and the travel price index. It also features the latest tourism indicators and includes feature articles related to tourism.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 87-003-X20030036638Geography: CanadaDescription:
The number of overnight trips taken in Canada by foreign residents continued to advance (2.0%) in 2002. A record number of close to 20 million foreign visitors crossed our borders in 2002. Americans accounted for four out of every five travellers, or about 16.2 million. About 3.8 million tourists came from overseas countries in 2002, down 5.3% from 2001. In 2002, Canadians made 13.0 million overnight trips to the United States, down 3.7% from 2001. Overall, the number of overnight trips to overseas destinations decreased 3.1% in 2002, compared with 2001.
Release date: 2003-09-09 - Articles and reports: 87-003-X20030036639Geography: CanadaDescription:
Canada's international travel deficit - the difference between what Canadians spend abroad and what foreigners spend in Canada - rose from $427 million in the fourth quarter of 2002 to an estimated $585 million in the first quarter of 2003. This was the first increase in Canada's travel deficit since the second quarter of 2002. Canada's travel deficit with the United States grew because both the number of trips made by Americans to Canada and their travel spending declined. Canada's travel deficit with countries other than the United States reached a new high in the first quarter because overseas visitors spent less in Canada and Canadian travellers increased their spending in overseas countries.
Release date: 2003-09-09 - 20. Travel between Canada and other countries, May 2003 ArchivedArticles and reports: 87-003-X20030036640Geography: CanadaDescription:
May 2003 monthly data show that Canadian travel to the United States bounced back because many Canadians took advantage of an increase in the value of the Canadian dollar. However, travel to Canada from the United States dropped for a fifth straight month, because severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) continued to take its toll.
Travel from overseas countries to Canada also dropped in May for the sixth consecutive month. During the same period, Canadian travel to overseas destinations also declined during the month.
Release date: 2003-09-09
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- Notices and consultations: 13-605-X201900100007Description:
This article describes the upcoming revisions (November 2019) in the Canadian Macroeconomic Accounts resulting from the inclusion of illegal cannabis production, consumption and distribution as well as statistical revisions of the international travel services. The paper highlights the impact of these revisions on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the balance of international payments (BOP).
Release date: 2019-05-30 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1803Description: This survey collects data on a continuous basis from visitors from countries other than the United States.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2703Description: The Air Passenger Origin and Destination - Canada/United States survey provides estimates of the number of passengers traveling on scheduled commercial flights between Canada and the United States by directional origin and destination.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2704Description: The survey covers the scheduled services operated within, into or out of Canada by medium-size and smaller-size Canadian and non-Canadian air carriers. Data on the origin and destination of passengers from the reporting carrier's system are collected.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3152Description: The primary objective of the International Travel Survey (ITS) is to provide statistics on travellers, to and from Canada, their characteristics of travel and spending levels.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3822Description: This survey identified the reasons why trips were taken as well as what motivated the traveller in the first place.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4439Description: The survey collected, among other things, information on Canadian residents' travel patterns during the past two years, their travel intentions over the next two years, their participation in entertainment and recreational activities at home and while on an overnight trip, the reasons for travelling or not travelling in Canada, the types of accommodation used, the sources of travel planning information and their impressions of Canada.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5005Description: The Frontier Counts data provide a full range of statistics on the number of international travellers by selected category and by type of transportation as well as the number of automobiles, trucks and other vehicles entering Canada.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5232Description: The National Travel Survey provides statistics on the activities of Canadian residents related to domestic and international tourism. It was developed to measure the volume, the characteristics and the economic impact of tourism.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5261Description: The Visitor Travel Survey (VTS) provides statistics on U.S. and overseas visitors to Canada, their characteristics of travel and spending levels. The Visitor Travel Survey was introduced in January 2018 to replace the U.S. and overseas visitors to Canada component of the International Travel Survey (ITS record 3152 Archived).