The number of Canadians travelling to the United States was down for a fifth consecutive month according to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada.
In May the number of Canadians who returned from the U.S. by plane was down by roughly 488,800 passengers, a 24.2 per cent decrease from the previous year.
Canadians are not only choosing to not travel to the U.S. by plane but by land as well with 1.3 million Canadians returning from across the border by car, a year-over-year decline of 38.1 per cent. Victoria Day reported the highest number of Canadian residents crossing back into the country by car. 106,900 total returns; this one day is 169.8 per cent higher than the average number of returnees on the other four Mondays in the month.
The number of U.S. residents travelling into Canada by land was also down in May, with 1,044,700 reported crossing the land border by car, an 8.4 per cent decline. This reportedly is the fourth month in a row there has been a year-over-year decline in U.S. travellers.
A total of 1.6 Canadians are reported to have returned from trips abroad in May seeing a year-over-year downtick of 3.7 per cent. According to the latest report 1.1 million of those travellers were returning from trips overseas, up 9.8 per cent from last year.
