{"id":68583,"date":"2026-01-12T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/12\/steep-decline-in-canadian-trips-from-u-s-in-december-statcan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:56:19","slug":"steep-decline-in-canadian-trips-from-u-s-in-december-statcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/12\/steep-decline-in-canadian-trips-from-u-s-in-december-statcan\/","title":{"rendered":"Steep decline in Canadian trips from U.S. in December: StatCan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<br \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Travel demand strong, just not to the U.S.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3s99P2xPZuQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> There was a \u201csteep decline\u201d in the number of trips Canadian residents took to and from the <\/p>\n<p>                        United States<\/p>\n<p>                         in December, marking yet another month of slowdown in transborder <\/p>\n<p>                        travel<\/p>\n<p>                        . <\/p>\n<p> Last month, Canadians made 1.3 million trips by automobile from the U.S., a 30.7 per cent year-over-year drop from 2024, according to monthly travel data from <\/p>\n<p>                        Statistics Canada<\/p>\n<p>                        . <\/p>\n<p> That figure was unchanged from November\u2019s total, which was 28.6 per cent down from the same month in 2024. <\/p>\n<p> The December 2025 data marked 12 consecutive months of year-over-year declines. <\/p>\n<p> By air, Canadian return trips from the U.S. fell 18.7 per cent in December to 470,700. <\/p>\n<p> For comparison, Canadian return trips by air from overseas countries increased 10.4 per cent, for a total of 1.1 million. <\/p>\n<p> Overall, however, Canadians returned from 1.6 million trips by air from abroad, down by 0.1 per cent from the previous year. <\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, U.S. residents took 981,800 trips to Canada by car in December, representing a nine per cent year-over-year drop and the 11th consecutive month of declines. By air, U.S. trips to Canada were down 8.9 per cent. <\/p>\n<p> Total international arrivals by air and automobile by returning Canadian residents and non-residents was 4.6 million, down 12.7 per cent<\/p>\n<p>                        <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                        from December 2024. This category also had its 11th straight month of year-over-year declines. <\/p>\n<p> Arrivals to Canada by air by non-Canadians last month totalled 752,700, down 1.1 per cent a year ago. Statistics Canada said this decrease was driven by an 8.9 per cent decline in U.S.-resident arrivals and was partially offset by a 6.6 per cent increase in overseas-resident arrivals. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li>Not their parents&#8217; financial plan: Gen Z Canadians skip saving for a down payment and splurge on travel<\/li>\n<li>Canadian travel to and from U.S. down 26.3% in October<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <em>\u2022 Email: dpaglinawan@postmedia.com<\/em> <\/p>\n\n<br \/>Steep decline in Canadian trips from U.S. in December: StatCan<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-12 18:56:19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a \u201csteep decline\u201d in the number of trips Canadian residents took to and from the United States in December, marking yet another month of slowdown in transborder travel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/no0112border.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}