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Travel by Canadian residents abroad increased 0.8% from October to 5.0 million trips in November.
Canadian residents made 782,000 trips to overseas countries in November, up 1.6%, while travel to the United States rose 0.6% to 4.2 million trips.
Overnight travel to the United States rose 2.1% to 1.8 million trips in November. This was the first increase since July 2011. The main factor was a 3.5% increase in overnight travel by car to the United States. Overnight travel by plane decreased 0.6%.
Canadians took 2.4 million same-day car trips to the United States in November, down 0.4% from October.
On an inbound basis, travel to Canada by residents from abroad declined slightly, 0.1%, to just over 2.0 million trips. This was because of a decline in travel by US residents to Canada.
American residents made 1.6 million trips in November, down 0.4% from October. Overnight travel by Americans to Canada decreased 0.6% to 969,000 trips. Overnight travel by car declined 0.7% to 555,000 trips, while overnight travel by plane increased 0.4% to 296,000 trips.
American residents made 583,000 same-day car trips to Canada in November, down 0.3% from the previous month.
Travel to Canada by residents of countries other than the United States increased 1.1% to 383,000 trips.
In November, 9 of the top 12 overseas markets recorded increases in travel to Canada. The United Kingdom remained Canada's number one overseas market, followed by France and Germany.
Note: Monthly data are seasonally adjusted.
Available on CANSIM: tables 427-0001 to 427-0006.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 5005.
The November 2011 issue of International Travel, Advance Information, Vol. 27, no. 11 (66-001-P, free), is now available from the Key resource module of our website under Publications.
For more information, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-800-307-3382; 613-951-9169; fax: 613-951-2909; tourism@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Riley Brockington (613-951-2995; riley.brockington@statcan.gc.ca), Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics Division.
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