International travel

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: Number of vehicles travelling between Canada and the United States, by trip characteristics, length of stay and type of transportation. Data available monthly.

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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; ...).

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Trips to Canada by residents of selected countries other than the United States, monthly and percentage change. 

Description: Number of international travellers entering or returning to Canada by province of entry and traveller category (seasonally adjusted). Data available monthly.

Description: Number of non-resident travellers entering Canada by country of residence, excluding the United States (seasonally adjusted). Data available monthly.

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This table contains 11559 series, with data for years 1972 - 2017 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (273 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador; Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador; ...); Traveller characteristics (91 items: Total international travellers; Total non-resident travellers; United States residents entering Canada; United States residents entering Canada, automobile; ...).

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International trips to Canada by type of traveller (non-resident, resident of Canada), length of stay and mode of transportation.

Description: 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.

Description: International travel by non-Canadian visitors coming to Canada for a trip. Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.

Description: 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.

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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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

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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.

Description: International travel by non-Canadians visitors coming to Canada for a trip, by port of entry (e.g. airport, border crossing). This table includes breakdowns by mode of transportation (air, land, water), by arrival type and by duration (same-day, overnight). Data come from Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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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.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

Description: This survey collects data on a continuous basis from visitors from countries other than the United States.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: This survey identified the reasons why trips were taken as well as what motivated the traveller in the first place.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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).