Highlights
In December, the number of international visitors to Canada continued to increase, but remained well below levels before the pandemic.
While residents from overseas countries made more than five times the trips in December 2021 than in the same month in 2020, it was under half (42.7%) of December 2019.
Likewise, US residents made almost five times more trips than in December 2020, yet less than one-third (32.4%) of those in the same month in 2019.
Compared with the same month in 2020, Canadians made more than four times the return trips home from visiting abroad in December 2021, but this was over one-third (37.1%) of the December 2019 trips.
After a record 96.8 million international arrivals—non-residents and returning Canadians as well as other travellers—to Canada in 2019, the number declined to 25.9 million in 2020, but had begun to recover in 2021.
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