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Table 35 Travellers to Canada, by country of origin, 2008
	Overnight trips
Country of origin¹	Trips	Nights	Spending in Canada
	thousands		C$ millions
United States	12,503	50,643	6,583
United Kingdom	837	11,363	1,184
France	405	7,015	541
Germany	315	5,249	466
Japan	259	3,103	356
Mexico	257	5,105	364
Australia	219	2,935	356
South Korea	173	4,172	276
China	159	4,439	263
India	129	2,792	122
1. May include more than one country.
Source: Statistics Canada, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics.

Table 36 Travel by Canadians to foreign countries, 2008
	Overnight visits
	Visits	Nights	Spending in country
	thousands		C$ millions
United States	18,915	146,602	12,924
Mexico	1,124	11,518	1,186
United Kingdom	1,017	12,406	1,227
Cuba	932	7,806	791
France	809	9,779	1,057
Dominican Republic	763	6,319	651
Germany	362	3,333	312
Italy	338	3,471	456
Netherlands	273	2,173	212
China	250	5,403	452
Source: Statistics Canada, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics.

Table 37 Major Canadian airlines, operational statistics
	1998	2003	2008
	thousands
Passengers (number)	24,571	20,042	37,494
Passenger-kilometres	64,426,065	59,508,960	96,677,633
Cargo (kilograms)	431,150	298,990	218,944
Cargo (tonne-kilometres)	2,340,594	1,419,988	1,260,823
Hours flown	843	703	1,119
Turbo fuel consumed (litres)	3,855,178	2,999,282	4,178,965
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 401-0001.