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Leading indicator, Canadian-resident return trips from the US by air and automobile - Canada
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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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- Data Visualization: 13-609-X2018015Description: This product gathers information from various statistical programs and illustrates the nature and the extent of Canada's economic and financial relationship with the Republic of Korea 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-X2018016Description: This product gathers information from various statistical programs and illustrates the nature and the extent of Canada's economic and financial relationship with Hong Kong 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-X2018017Description: This product gathers information from various statistical programs and illustrates the nature and the extent of Canada's economic and financial relationship with Singapore 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
- Table: 13-609-XDescription: This product illustrates the nature and the extent of Canada's economic and financial relationship with the world using interactive graphs and tables. The statistical information is presented by theme such as trade, investment, employment and travel.Release date: 2025-02-05
- Public use microdata: 66M0001XDescription: Records relate to the activities of Canadians travelling outside the country and visitors to Canada: Canadian residents; travellers; non-residents; expenditures; length of stay; type of transportation; purpose of trip; accommodation used; places visited; expenditure by categories.
International travel data are collected in two flows: Canadian returning from abroad; visitors from the USA and from other countries to Canada.
Release date: 2024-04-18 - Table: 66-001-PDescription: This product provides monthly and year-to-date information on visitors entering Canada and on returning Canadian residents. It also includes an estimate of overnight trips by province of entry (visitors) and re-entry (Canadian residents). The data is released seven weeks following the reference period.Release date: 2024-02-23
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020009Description: This dashboard presents selected data that are relevant for monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on economic activity in Canada. It includes data on a range of monthly indicators—real GDP, consumer prices, the unemployment rate, merchandise exports and imports, retail sales, hours worked and manufacturing sales—as well as monthly data on aircraft movements, railway carloadings, and travel between Canada and other countries.
Estimates are presented from January 2019 to the current reference month for each data series. The information will be updated continuously as new data becomes available, and additional series may be added to the dashboard as circumstances warrant.
To support the analysis of time series movements in the data, the dashboard reports changes in each series on both a month-over-month and year-over-year basis. For most of the variables reported, information on cumulative changes in the data both prior and subsequent to the end of 2019 is also presented by indexing the level estimates to December 2019, as depicted in the accompanying charts.
Release date: 2024-01-15 - Table: 24-10-0002-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of vehicles travelling between Canada and the United States, by trip characteristics, length of stay and type of transportation. Data available monthly.Release date: 2022-02-23
- 49. Non-resident travellers entering Canada, by country of residence (excluding the United States) ArchivedTable: 24-10-0003-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
This table contains 3549 series, with data for years 1972 - 2018 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; ...) Country of residence (273 items: Total non-resident travellers, countries other than the United States; North America, Central America and Caribbean, total; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; ...).
Release date: 2022-02-23 - 50. Trips by residents of countries other than the United States to Canada, percentage change ArchivedTable: 24-10-0003-02Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Trips to Canada by residents of selected countries other than the United States, monthly and percentage change.
Release date: 2022-02-23
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- 31. Canada's travel account since 1980 ArchivedArticles and reports: 87-403-X20010015900Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines the nature and magnitude of Canada's travel account deficit sicne 1980. Trends and issues relating to Canada's travel account with the United States and with all other overseas markets. The final section provides a conclusion and outlook.
Release date: 2001-10-12 - Articles and reports: 87-403-X20010015902Geography: CanadaDescription:
The number of passengers on transborder flights between Canada and the United States has increased significantly since 1995. The 1995 base year conincides with the signing of the Open Skies Agreement, which opened up air travel markets between these two countries. The agreement has resulted in substantial changes to air travel in North America.
Release date: 2001-10-12 - 33. Tourism service industries ArchivedArticles and reports: 87-403-X20010015903Geography: CanadaDescription:
This chapter describes three specific industry sectors, all very important to tourism: traveller accomodation services, food services and drinking places, travel agencies and tour operators. These sectors generated just over half of the goods and services purchased by all visitors in Canada in 1999.
Release date: 2001-10-12 - 34. Tourism and the trend towards consolidation: The airline, hotel and distribution industries ArchivedArticles and reports: 87-403-X20010015904Geography: CanadaDescription:
The phenomenon of consolidation, characterized by mergers, acquisitions and alliances, is an excellent means of responding to globalization, and constitutes an increasingly common way for companies to position themselves on the global chessboard.
Release date: 2001-10-12 - Articles and reports: 87-403-X20010015905Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article is above concerned with results. Concepts and methodologies employed are not discussed. The results of the Canadian TSA for 1992 are presented. The structural changes that occurred between 1988 and 1992 are also discussed. Detailed results from 1988 and 1992 are reported in the appendices.
Release date: 2001-10-12 - Articles and reports: 87-403-X20010015906Geography: Census metropolitan areaDescription:
Tourism in Canadian Cities, A Statistical Outlook is a valuable source of information, and in some instances the only source, for Convention and Visitor Bureau's (CVBs) across Canada to profile visitors to their city. This article will examine how Tourism Vancouver - The Greater Vancouver Convention and Visitors Bureau used the information.
Release date: 2001-10-12 - 37. Application of tourism statistics: Greater Quebec Area Tourism and Convention Bureau (OTCCUQ) ArchivedArticles and reports: 87-403-X20010015907Geography: Census metropolitan areaDescription:
This article will detail several useful examples of how these statistics are actually being applied in the day-to-day work of OTCCUQ personnel.
Release date: 2001-10-12 - 38. National tourism indicators - 1999 results ArchivedArticles and reports: 87-403-X20010015956Geography: CanadaDescription:
In 1999, Canada's travel account balance (including passenger fares), the difference between the expenditures of foreign visitors in the country and those of Canadian residents outside the country, measured its lowest deficit since 1988, declining to $3.0 billion.
Release date: 2001-10-12 - 39. Canada benefitting from cruising boom ArchivedArticles and reports: 87-003-X20010025635Geography: CanadaDescription:
They are becoming the new highways for international tourism traffic to Canada - cruise ships sailing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are bringing international visitors to Canada in unprecedented numbers.
Release date: 2001-04-24 - 40. Canada's competitiveness in the US travel market ArchivedArticles and reports: 87-003-X20010015462Geography: CanadaDescription:
To better understand the changes occuring in the US market, we will first compare the main characteristics of American travellers to Canada in 1990 and 1997. Then we will compare the characteristics of family travel and non-family travel seperately in 1990 and 1997.
Release date: 2001-01-30
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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).