Canada. Overseas Travel Down

Travel from overseas countries declined 7.8% from April as 342,000 trips were taken to Canada. In May, 11 of the top 12 overseas markets recorded decreases, with Japan (-34.6%) recording the largest decline.

Canadians made 633,000 trips to overseas countries in May, down 9.8% from April. This was the largest monthly percentage decline since April 2003, when concerns regarding Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) began.

Travel from the United States to Canada decreased 1.1% in May compared with April to about 1.9 million trips. American residents took just over 1.0 million overnight trips to Canada in May, down 2.0%. Overnight travel by plane (-5.2%) registered the largest decline.

Same-day car travel from the United States decreased 1.3% from April to 746,000 trips in May, a continuation of a downward trend that started in July 2001.

In the opposite direction, Canadian residents took nearly 3.3 million trips to the United States in May, up 1.2% from April.

Same-day car travel to the United States rose 2.6% to over 1.7 million trips in May. At the same time, overnight travel to the United States was down 0.4% from April to 1.5 million trips.

The number of overnight car trips by Canadian residents to the United States in May was up 0.6% compared with April while overnight plane travel was down 3.7%.

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