While Canadians continue to
skip travel
to the
United States
, Americans are also visiting their northern neighbours less as
trade tensions
between the countries persist.
For the third month in a row, trips to Canada by U.S. residents declined in April to 1.3 million trips, down 8.9 per cent year-over-year from 2024, monthly travel data from Statistics Canada show.
Arrivals to Canada by automobile by U.S. residents were down 8.4 per cent year-over-year in April, to 937,400, more than half of which were same-day trips. Air arrivals, on the other hand, were down four per cent from a year ago.
There was also a decline in the number of U.S. residents who disembarked from cruise ships in Canada that month, down 31.5 per cent to 24,800 compared with the same month in 2024.
Trips by U.S. residents to Canada in April, despite dropping nearly nine per cent, still represent 76.7 per cent of all non-resident trips to Canada.
Return trips by air from the United States by Canadian residents
continued to decrease
, dropping by 14 per cent compared to April 2024. Return trips from overseas countries by Canadian residents travelling by air increased 9.1 per cent in April compared with one year earlier.
By automobile, the number of return trips by Canadian residents from the U.S. was down by 35.4 per cent to 1.4 million.
Overall, Canadian residents returned from 2.3 million trips to the United States in April, a 29.1 per cent drop from 2024. Trips to the U.S. accounted for 63.9 per cent of all trips taken by Canadian residents that month.
Trips by non-U.S. overseas residents to Canada also slightly edged down by 0.6 per cent in April, slipping to 408,200 arrivals, the majority of which were by air. This marks the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year declines.
Europe is Canada’s largest source of visitors from overseas, followed by Asia and the Americas, according to StatCan.
The number of arrivals from Europe was up 3.7 per cent, while arrivals from the Americas (excluding the United States) was up 14.4 per cent. Arrivals from Asia were down 12.6 per cent, contributing the most to the decline in overseas visitors in April.
Fewer Canadian residents returned from trips abroad that month, with 3.6 million return trips, marking the fourth consecutive month of declines, down by 18.9 per cent compared to the previous year.
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Number of Americans travelling to Canada continues to decline
2025-06-24 16:00:40
