Canada-U.S. travel drops for 4th straight month, new data suggests – National [Video]

Travel between Canada and the U.S. has dropped again.

Return trips by Canadians from the U.S. declined for a fourth consecutive month compared with the year prior, data released by Statistics Canada shows, while travel by Americans coming to Canada is also on the decline.

The data, released Monday, showed the number of Canadians who had returned from the U.S. in April by vehicle totalled 1.2 million, a 35.2 per cent decline from what was seen the same month last year.

The decline was also seen among air travellers, with the agency reporting that those trips fell by 19.9 per cent last month compared with 2024, to a total of 582,737.

April’s drop in Canadian resident return trips by both vehicle and air marks the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year declines.

Americans are also travelling less to Canada, the data showed.

The number of trips north by U.S. residents by vehicle dropped 10.7 per cent in April, with 820,700 trips, compared with 2024, the third …