National Travel Survey, second quarter 2022

Highlights

Canadian residents took 70.6 million trips within Canada or abroad during the second quarter, 31.8 million more than in the second quarter of 2021 and over nine-tenths (91.8%) of the number taken during the same period in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

From April to June 2022, the majority (92.0%) of trips were domestic, while 5.7% were destined for the United States and 2.4% overseas. This marks a discernible increase in international travel by Canadians, as 99.1% of trips were domestic during the same quarter in 2021.

In the second quarter, Canadians spent over twice as much on domestic trips ($17.2 billion) as international travel ($8.2 billion). Domestic tourism spending was over three times higher compared with the second quarter of 2021, and it surpassed spending during the same quarter in 2019 by 25.8%.

More recent data on international travel by Canadian residents are available from the monthly release "Travel between Canada and other countries."

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