Travel to Canada rises as COVID restrictions lift: StatCan

Intercontinental travel to Canada has continued to rise with the loosening of COVID-19 limitations but stays below pre-pandemic degrees, in accordance to a report from Studies Canada launched Tuesday.

In March 2022, 148,900 overseas citizens arrived in Canada, the report explained.

Though this determine is much more than five times as lots of when compared to March 2021, it is really less than 50 % or 43 for each cent of the quantity of overseas citizens who entered Canada that similar month in 2019.

U.S. citizens designed 465,200 excursions to Canada in March 2022, just about five times as several as March 2021. Nonetheless, this was 31.9 for every cent of the 1.5 million journeys taken in March 2019.

Of the whole journeys made by Americans in March 2022, 310,300 were being by car, with 42 per cent being exact-day returns.

The range of European readers to Canada, in the meantime, jumped to 68,800 in March 2022 from 5,600 in March 2021, when site visitors from Asia also rose to 33,700 from 12,100. Both of those also were being beneath March 2019 amounts, the report reported.

The federal govt eased a variety of journey limitations in February, like making it possible for fully vaccinated travellers the alternative of displaying an antigen test taken a day right before a scheduled flight or arrival at a land border crossing, alternatively than a a lot more high-priced PCR exam.

That thirty day period, the federal authorities also lifted limits that confined the selection of airports that could get global flights.

Much more border measures were being calm in April, with completely vaccinated travellers no lengthier demanded to present a negative pre-entry COVID-19 examination to enter Canada.

CANADIAN Travel

Canadians returned from 1.3 million excursions to the United States in March 2022, extra than five times as numerous as March 2021, though even now 33.4 per cent of the 4 million excursions taken in March 2019.

Of the total returning excursions designed by travellers from Canada in March, 775,800 ended up by automobile and just less than 50 percent of individuals have been exact same-working day visits.

The selection of return air outings by Canadians rose to 549,300 in March 2022, a sharp raise from 18,900 in March 2021 but 48.3 for every cent of March 2019.

More Canadians also appeared to acquire March Break holidays, with 685,000 people returning from visits overseas, up from 48,800 in March 2021 but considerably less than half of the 1.4 million Canadians who flew home in March 2019.
