Characteristics of international overnight travellers, 2013
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Released: 2015-03-31
Overnight travel abroad by Canadian residents totalled 32.9 million trips during 2013, accounting for $35.0 billion of spending. The United States was the destination for 23.4 million overnight trips, accounting for $20.9 billion of spending.
Residents of the United States made 11.5 million overnight trips to Canada in 2013 and spent $6.7 billion during those trips. During the same period, overseas residents made 4.5 million overnight trips to Canada, spending $7.6 billion.
Note to readers
In partnership with external stakeholders, Statistics Canada updated the method used to estimate the number of same-day and overnight commercial plane trips made by US residents entering Canada via one of the following three airports: Pearson (Toronto), Trudeau (Montréal) and Vancouver.
This change created a break in the time series on the number of same-day and overnight commercial air trips made by American residents entering Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.
The methodological update does not affect the total number of US residents travelling to Canada by commercial air. The 2013 and 2014 data on the number of same-day and overnight commercial air trips made by US residents, however, have been revised.
Data are now available from the International Travel Survey. Tables and statistical profiles of characteristics of international travellers for 2013 are now available upon request.
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