International Travel: Tables

Table 5
Person-trips by international travellers entering or returning to Canada, by duration

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
	thousands

Non-resident travellers

Same day	25,971	27,441	29,236	29,689	29,083	27,566	24,932	21,483	19,814	17,548
United States	25,563	27,089	28,965	29,450	28,805	27,301	24,710	21,278	19,539	17,265
Other countries	409	352	271	239	278	265	222	205	275	283

One or more nights	17,285	17,636	18,828	19,367	19,555	19,581	19,964	17,420	19,031	18,612
United States	12,909	13,401	14,893	15,180	15,188	15,570	16,168	14,232	15,088	14,390
Other countries	4,377	4,234	3,935	4,187	4,366	4,010	3,796	3,188	3,944	4,222

All trips	43,256	45,076	48,064	49,055	48,638	47,147	44,896	38,903	38,845	36,160
United States	38,471	40,490	43,857	44,630	43,994	42,871	40,878	35,509	34,626	31,655
Other countries	4,785	4,586	4,207	4,425	4,644	4,275	4,018	3,393	4,219	4,505

Resident travellers

Same day	37,398	35,815	29,337	28,081	28,000	24,841	21,534	21,486	22,191	22,940
United States	37,398	35,815	29,337	28,081	28,000	24,841	21,534	21,486	22,191	22,932
Other countries	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8

One or more nights	18,973	19,111	17,648	18,368	19,182	18,359	17,705	17,739	19,595	21,091
United States	15,301	15,127	13,430	14,116	14,666	13,527	13,025	12,666	13,856	14,862
Other countries	3,672	3,984	4,218	4,252	4,516	4,832	4,680	5,074	5,739	6,229

All trips	56,371	54,925	46,985	46,448	47,182	43,201	39,239	39,225	41,786	44,031
United States	52,699	50,942	42,768	42,196	42,666	38,368	34,559	34,151	36,047	37,794
Other countries	3,672	3,984	4,218	4,252	4,516	4,832	4,680	5,074	5,739	6,237

Other travellers	7,763	8,137	8,515	9,109	9,426	9,131	9,119	8,924	9,194	9,119

Non-resident crews	3,061	3,146	3,168	3,324	3,356	3,149	3,166	3,157	3,164	3,147
Resident crews	4,363	4,661	5,029	5,475	5,720	5,634	5,626	5,481	5,708	5,658
Other ¹	339	330	318	309	350	348	327	286	323	314

Grand total	107,390	108,139	103,564	104,613	105,246	99,478	93,254	87,052	89,825	89,310

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