In February, the preliminary number of international arrivals to Canada by air and automobile increased 18.6% from February 2023.
By air, the number of non-resident arrivals in Canada totalled 519,500 in February 2024, up 23.0% year over year. In February, for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of non-resident arrivals by air surpassed the pre-pandemic level, in February 2020. Meanwhile, the number of Canadian-resident return trips from abroad reached 1.8 million, a 15.8% increase from February 2023.
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