Canadian travel numbers to the US keep getting worse

While President Donald Trump has dialed succor his earlier rhetoric calling Canada the "51st affirm" and then-Top Minister Justin Trudeau its "governor," Canadians are largely preserving company on the selection now not to shuttle to the U.S. in train of the most up-to-date administration's politics in direction of their country.

Numbers from Customs and Border Security (CBP) notify that border crossings from Canada dropped by 12.5% in February and 18% in March, whereas airways fancy Air Canada (ACDVF) and WestJet possess both canceled more than one routes to smaller U.S. cities amid a sudden dropoff in query.

Separate numbers from the Flight Centre Fling Neighborhood Canada notify that change shuttle from Canada also fell by 40% in the most principal months of 2025.

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New file reveals that 'return journeys from the U.S. persisted to decline'

"On account of a downward shift in query, WestJet has updated its summer season agenda to wait on Canadians drift where they wish to transfer," the latter provider mentioned in a assertion on the cancelation of its Vancouver-Austin, Winnipeg-Las Vegas and Edmonton-Atlanta flights.

Avenue web site traffic is now not doing critically better, even a few months into what some in the beginning classified as a immediate-time length dropoff based on recordsdata headlines. A file from Statistics Canada launched for the month of April reveals that border crossings by aspect twin carriageway fell by 35% from 2024.

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The 582,700 Canadians who came into the country from the U.S. by plane also signify a 20% decrease from closing year, despite the indisputable truth that aspect twin carriageway web site traffic took the bigger hit. In March and February, return border crossings dropped off by a respective 32% and 23% for car crossings and 14% and 2.4% for air shuttle.

"Despite the indisputable truth that Canadian-resident return journeys from in a international country countries increased [by] 1.3 million, return journeys by air from the USA persisted to decline in April 2025," the Statistics Canada file reads.

Trump continues to suppose that shuttle numbers are down

Even with more than one separate reviews showing that shuttle both from Canada and heaps other countries is down, President Trump has persisted to suppose them by calling the traveler dropoff "now not a huge deal" and telling newshounds that "tourism is manner up."

"Tourism is doing thoroughly," Trump mentioned in an April 29 interview after ABC reporter Terry Moran confirmed him the declining numbers. "We're doing thoroughly. Wait [un]til you glimpse the actual numbers near out six months from now."

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At an earlier press conference, White Condominium Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also pushed aside any concerns about lost jobs or vacationer dollars by calling the U.S. "a unprecedented safer country than four years in the past beneath the old president."

A February file from the U.S. Fling Association estimated that a 10% good aquire in Canadian shuttle would rate the U.S. shuttle industry at least $2.1 billion and 140,000 lost jobs. As the border crossing numbers now notify, the decrease in company is frequently unprecedented bigger.

In response, accommodations in a few liberal states possess started making an strive to distance themselves from White Condominium policies by particularly advertising and offering reductions to Canadians.

“This spring, the lodge is leaning into its unbiased spirit by launching the Tariff-Free Room Bundle, offering 20% off stays for all Canadian mates," Campfire Hotel in Oregon's Cascade Differ mentioned in a peculiar message to Canadian travelers.

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