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Canadian residents made 4.2 million trips outside of the country in January, down 1.5% from the previous month. Trips to both the United States and overseas destinations decreased compared with December.
Overall, Canadian residents made 3.5 million trips to the United States, a 0.9% decrease. Same-day car trips to the United States, the most frequent type of trips to the United States, fell 2.5%.
Canadian residents took 677,000 trips to overseas destinations in January, down 4.7% from December.
Foreign residents made 2.0 million trips to Canada in January, a decrease of 0.5% from December.
The number of trips by American residents to Canada fell 1.5% to 1.6 million. The majority of American residents entered Canada by car. Same-day car trips dropped 1.9%, while overnight car trips fell 3.6%.
Residents of countries other than the United States made 358,000 trips to Canada in January, a 4.2% increase from December. Travel from 9 of the top 12 overseas countries increased in January. Among these, the United Kingdom recorded the largest number of trips to Canada, with 65,000 trips, up 4.0% compared with December. Trips by residents of Mexico numbered 10,000, a 17.1% increase over December and the largest rise among the top countries.
Note: Seasonally adjusted data have been revised back to January 2007.
Revisions have been made to some non-seasonally adjusted series for each month of the second and third quarters of 2009.
Available on CANSIM: tables 427-0001 to 427-0006.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 5005.
The January 2010 issue of International Travel, Advance Information, Vol. 26, no. 1 (66-001-P, free), is now available from the Key resource module of our website under Publications.
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Table 1
| January 2009r | December 2009r | January 2010p | December 2009 to January 2010 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seasonally adjusted | ||||
| thousands | % change1 | |||
| Canadian trips abroad2 | 3,797 | 4,251 | 4,186 | -1.5 |
| To the United States | 3,100 | 3,541 | 3,509 | -0.9 |
| To other countries | 697 | 710 | 677 | -4.7 |
| Same-day car trips to the United States | 1,640 | 1,935 | 1,887 | -2.5 |
| Total trips, one or more nights | 2,117 | 2,282 | 2,266 | -0.7 |
| United States3 | 1,419 | 1,572 | 1,589 | 1.1 |
| Car | 842 | 941 | 929 | -1.3 |
| Plane | 487 | 545 | 541 | -0.7 |
| Other modes of transportation | 90 | 86 | 119 | 39.3 |
| Other countries4 | 697 | 710 | 677 | -4.7 |
| Travel to Canada2 | 2,168 | 2,005 | 1,995 | -0.5 |
| From the United States | 1,790 | 1,661 | 1,636 | -1.5 |
| From other countries | 378 | 344 | 358 | 4.2 |
| Same-day car trips from the United States | 702 | 620 | 608 | -1.9 |
| Total trips, one or more nights | 1,369 | 1,300 | 1,287 | -1.0 |
| United States3 | 1,001 | 964 | 938 | -2.8 |
| Car | 603 | 570 | 549 | -3.6 |
| Plane | 280 | 281 | 273 | -2.8 |
| Other modes of transportation | 117 | 114 | 115 | 1.4 |
| Other countries4 | 369 | 336 | 350 | 4.2 |
| Travel to Canada: Top overseas markets, by country of origin5 | ||||
| United Kingdom | 66 | 62 | 65 | 4.0 |
| France | 33 | 34 | 35 | 3.6 |
| Germany | 29 | 26 | 26 | 2.2 |
| Japan | 19 | 19 | 20 | 2.3 |
| Australia | 19 | 17 | 17 | -2.1 |
| China | 17 | 13 | 14 | 6.2 |
| South Korea | 14 | 12 | 13 | 3.7 |
| India | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9.7 |
| Hong Kong | 9 | 10 | 10 | 5.4 |
| Mexico | 22 | 9 | 10 | 17.1 |
| Netherlands | 9 | 9 | 9 | -1.9 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 9 | 9 | -0.3 |
