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International Travel: Advance Information

Table 1
International trips to Canada
Table summary
This table displays the results of International trips to Canada February, January to February, 2017, 2018 and Change 2018, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	2017	2018	Change 2018	2017	2018	Change 2018
	February			January to February
	number		percent	number		percent
Trips by non-residents^{Table 1 Note 1}	1,467,119	1,542,507	5.1	2,946,037	3,021,858	2.6
United States residents	1,170,713	1,205,413	3.0	2,335,323	2,360,082	1.1
Automobile	839,772	831,189	-1.0	1,673,330	1,624,288	-2.9
Same day	484,267	473,982	-2.1	1,013,551	975,445	-3.8
One or more nights	355,505	357,207	0.5	659,779	648,843	-1.7
Plane	272,021	315,523	16.0	543,340	612,988	12.8
Bus	44,485	44,633	0.3	91,701	96,325	5.0
Train, boat and other methods	14,435	14,068	-2.5	26,952	26,481	-1.7
All other countries residents	296,406	337,094	13.7	610,714	661,776	8.4
Direct	215,548	251,559	16.7	431,187	485,011	12.5
Via the United States^{Table 1 Note 2}	80,858	85,535	5.8	179,527	176,765	-1.5
Trips by residents of Canada^{Table 1 Note 1}	3,878,825	4,146,871	6.9	8,289,842	8,651,945	4.4
Returning from the United States	2,715,331	2,928,691	7.9	5,765,512	6,078,382	5.4
Automobile	1,910,843	2,065,786	8.1	4,109,708	4,330,630	5.4
Same day	1,394,565	1,513,677	8.5	2,939,832	3,116,363	6.0
One or more nights	516,278	552,109	6.9	1,169,876	1,214,267	3.8
Plane	740,680	795,958	7.5	1,524,041	1,611,650	5.7
Bus	50,902	52,681	3.5	104,387	106,966	2.5
Train, boat and other methods	12,906	14,266	10.5	27,376	29,136	6.4
Returning from all other countries	1,163,494	1,218,180	4.7	2,524,330	2,573,563	2.0
Direct	1,021,717	1,075,543	5.3	2,203,371	2,260,703	2.6
Via the United States^{Table 1 Note 2}	141,777	142,637	0.6	320,959	312,860	-2.5
Total^{Table 1 Note 1}	5,345,944	5,689,378	6.4	11,235,879	11,673,803	3.9
Note 1 Excludes immigrants, former residents, military personnel, diplomats and crews. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Entries and re-entries through or by way of the United States. Return to note 2 referrer Source: Reports of entries and re-entries from offices of the Canada Border Services Agency.

Date modified:: 2018-05-04