October travel continues upward trend, but still under pre-pandemic levels: StatCan

OTTAWA –

Statistics Canada says Canadian worldwide journey rebounded sharply in October because the transportation trade continued its post-pandemic restoration.

The company says Canadian residents returned from 3.3 million journeys overseas in October, almost 4 occasions the determine recorded throughout the identical month of 2021.

International arrivals to Canada, which incorporates each guests and returning residents of Canada, hit nearly three-quarters the extent seen in October 2019 earlier than the pandemic started.

On Oct. 1, all COVID-19 border restrictions, together with vaccination, obligatory use of the ArriveCAN app and all testing and quarantine necessities, had been eliminated for all travellers getting into Canada by land, air and sea.

Statistics Canada says air transportation rose 5.5 per cent in October in contrast with the earlier month, reaching the best degree of exercise since February 2020.

Still, the company says regardless of easing restrictions and 9 months of uninterrupted beneficial properties in air transportation, the exercise degree recorded in October was nonetheless about 34 per cent under the pre-pandemic degree.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Dec. 23, 2022.