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Statistics Canada reported Monday that in April 2026 there were 3.2 million return trips by Canadian residents from international destinations including the U.S., which marked a three per cent increase from the same month a year earlier.<\/p>\n
Nearly half of that amount (1.4 per cent) were return trips from the U.S., which the agency adds was the first increase of its kind since December 2024.<\/p>\n
In total, Canadians returned from 1.8 million trips to the U.S. in April compared to the same month in 2025, with a 5.8 per cent increase in return trips by automobile. Meanwhile, Canadians returning from trips to the U.S. by air decreased 8.1 per cent in the same period.<\/p>\n
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Canadians returned from a total of 1.3 million trips to overseas destinations other than the U.S. in April 2026, which was a 5.3 per cent increase from a year earlier, Statistics Canada said.<\/p>\n
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Similar reports from the agency suggested the U.S. was becoming a less popular destination for Canadian travellers amid the trade war, including a year-over-year drop of 12.5 per cent reported in February,<\/a> and a 22 per cent drop in January.<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:52 \n\t\t\tMore on Canada The agency also said political tensions between Canada and the U.S. created a shift in travel trends among Canadian residents that date back to the beginning of 2025.<\/p>\n Although the data shows travel by Canadians to the U.S. increased slightly from a year earlier, Statistics Canada notes there was a \u201cbase-year effect\u201d compared to April 2025 \u2014 when travel levels were unusually low.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n April 2026 also marked the first time since January 2025 that year-over-year international arrivals in Canada increased. This includes Canadian-resident return trips, combined with U.S.<\/a>-resident and overseas-resident arrivals, the agency said.<\/p>\n Near the end of 2025, roughly two thirds of Canadians surveyed by Flight Centre Canada said they were less likely to travel to the U.S. in 2026<\/a> compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n Similar survey data from Global News\u2019 own Ipsos polling in 2025<\/a> showed participants had a more soured sentiment towards the U.S. This was especially the case after U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> repeated rhetoric that Canada could have all tariffs removed if it became the \u201c51st<\/a>\u201d state.<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canadians made slightly more return trips from the U.S. in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,164630,1849,8334,46,1689,900,2845],"class_list":["post-662838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-u-s-relations","tag-consumer","tag-donald-trump-tariffs","tag-economy","tag-trade-war","tag-travel","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Click](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260422-HEATHER.jpg\")
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