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The Daily. Friday, March 16, 2001
Foreigners made 4.3 million trips to Canada in January, up 6.3% from December. Meanwhile, the overall number of trips Canadians made to international destinations jumped 12.3% from December 2000 to 4.2 million, the strongest month-to-month increase over the past 10 years. Their number of trips to the United States rose 13.3% and their number of trips to overseas destinations increased 3.6%. (The data are seasonally adjusted and cover both same-day and overnight trips.)
Americans made a record 1.4 million overnight trips to Canada in January, up 7.3% from December. Canadians also increased their number of overnight trips south of the border by 11.0% to 1.3 million.
The number of overnight auto trips Americans took to Canada grew 6.7% to a record high of 864,000. American travel by plane rose 6.2% to 343,000, setting a record for overnight travel by this mode. For their part, Canadians took 732,000 overnight trips by car to the United States in January, up 15.2% from December and the first double-digit gain since January 1996. Overnight travel by plane was up 5.8% to 448,000.
In January, same-day car trips between Canada and the United States increased in both directions. Canadians made 2.4 million car excursions south of the border in January, up 13.7% from December, while the number of such trips by Americans to Canada increased 9.7% to almost 2.4 million.
Canadians made a record 414,000 overnight trips to overseas countries in January, up 3.6% from December. Overseas residents increased their number of overnight trips to Canada by 1.4% from December to 392,000.
Travellers from 5 of Canada's top 12 overseas markets showed increases in same-day and overnight trips to Canada in January. Taiwan showed the strongest increase (+33.9%) in travel to Canada, followed by Hong Kong (+23.4%).
Travel between Canada and other countries
| Dec. 2000(r) | Jan. 2001(p) | Dec. 2000 to Jan. 2001 | Jan. 2001(p) | Jan. 2000 to Jan. 2001 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| seasonally adjusted | unadjusted | |||||||
| '000 | % change | '000 | % change | |||||
| Canadian trips abroad(1) | 3,726 | 4,183 | 12.3 | 3,563 | 6.4 | |||
| Same-day car trips to the United States | 2,114 | 2,403 | 13.7 | 1,909 | 1.3 | |||
| Total trips, one or more nights | 1,567 | 1,710 | 9.1 | 1,569 | 12.2 | |||
|
1,168 | 1,297 | 11.0 | 996 | 6.4 | |||
|
635 | 732 | 15.2 | 441 | 5.3 | |||
|
423 | 448 | 5.8 | 500 | 7.6 | |||
|
109 | 117 | 7.3 | 55 | 5.1 | |||
|
399 | 414 | 3.6 | 573 | 23.9 | |||
| Travel to Canada(1) | 4,047 | 4,302 | 6.3 | 2,711 | 5.7 | |||
| Same-day car trips from the United States | 2,145 | 2,353 | 9.7 | 1,808 | 5.5 | |||
| Total trips, one or more nights | 1,681 | 1,780 | 5.9 | 810 | 7.7 | |||
|
1,294 | 1,388 | 7.3 | 620 | 7.6 | |||
|
810 | 864 | 6.7 | 353 | 4.5 | |||
|
323 | 343 | 6.2 | 215 | 10.8 | |||
|
160 | 180 | 12.7 | 52 | 17.5 | |||
|
387 | 392 | 1.4 | 189 | 7.8 | |||
| Most important Overseas markets(4) | ||||||||
| United Kingdom | 79 | 77 | -2.1 | 38 | 9.7 | |||
| Japan | 45 | 45 | 1.1 | 19 | 3.5 | |||
| France | 34 | 35 | 2.3 | 16 | -9.1 | |||
| Germany | 34 | 33 | -3.2 | 11 | -12.3 | |||
| Taiwan | 13 | 17 | 33.9 | 8 | 26.0 | |||
| Australia | 17 | 17 | 0.0 | 14 | 12.9 | |||
| Hong Kong | 13 | 16 | 23.4 | 10 | 43.3 | |||
| South Korea | 13 | 13 | -0.7 | 8 | 5.6 | |||
| Mexico | 14 | 12 | -10.0 | 6 | 1.8 | |||
| Netherlands | 13 | 11 | -16.0 | 4 | -21.8 | |||
| Italy | 10 | 9 | -6.3 | 4 | -21.2 | |||
| Switzerland | 9 | 9 | 4.0 | 4 | 0.2 | |||
| r | Revised figures. |
| p | Preliminary figures. |
| 1 | Totals exceed the sum of same-day car trips and total trips, one or more nights because they include all same-day trips. |
| 2 | Estimates for the United States include counts of cars and buses, as well as estimated numbers for planes, trains, boats and other modes. |
| 3 | Figures for other countries exclude same-day entries, by land only, via the United States. |
| 4 | Includes same-day and one or more night trips. |
Available on CANSIM: matrices 2661-2698, 5780-6049 and 8200-8329.
The January 2001 issue of International travel, advance information (66-001-PIB, $6/$55) is now available. See How to order products.
For data requests, contact Michel Campbell (613-951-9169; fax: 613-951-2909; michel.campbell@statcan.gc.ca). For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Laurie McDougall (613-951-6766; fax: 613-951-2909; laurie.mcdougall@statcan.gc.ca), Tourism Statistics Program.