Canadian travel to U.S. tanked 24% in late 2025 from year before: data

Canadian travel to the U.S. plummeted last winter and on average, Canadians spent a lot less money while travelling south of the border, data from Statistics Canada shows.

Canadian travel to U.S. tanked 24% in late 2025 from year before: data. Canadian travel to the U.S. plummeted last winter and on average, Canadians spent a lot less money while travelling south of the border, data from Statistics Canada shows. Overall, Canadians made fewer trips abroad. In the last three months of 2025, Canadians made 8.7 million trips abroad, down 13 per cent compared to the same period in 2024, Statistics Canada said in its National Travel Survey and Visitor Travel Survey. But nowhere was the drop clearer than the United States. During the last quarter of 2025, the first major holiday season since the trade war with the U.S. began, Canadians took 5.4 million trips to the U.S., declining 24 per cent compared to the same time in 2024. Canadians also spent less money while in the U.S., the survey showed. Between October an...