Highlights
In the third quarter of 2021, Canadians took 86.8 million trips within Canada or abroad. While this 4.4% increase from the third quarter of 2020 signalled the beginning of a modest recovery, travel still lags the same quarter in 2019, before the pandemic.
The number of trips taken by Canadians from July to September 2021 was 14.5% less than those taken during the same period in 2019. For this quarter, however, virtually all (98.9%) trips were domestic, while before the pandemic, roughly 10% were to the United States or overseas destinations.
With a slight growth in overall trips by Canadians in the third quarter, tourism spending at home increased by 7.1% compared to the same quarter of 2019, while spending abroad declined by 80.0%.
More recent data on international travel by Canadian residents are available from the monthly "Travel between Canada and other countries."
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