The number of international arrivals to Canada (non-resident visitors and returning Canadians) more than tripled compared with October 2021, approaching but not yet reaching levels recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, reported Statistics Canada on Monday.
The 570,100 non-resident visitors that arrived from abroad in October at Canadian airports equipped with electronic sensors were more than double those that arrived the same month in 2021, said the federal agency.
“In October, US residents took 838,500 trips to Canada through land ports with electronic sensors, over a half a million more than in October 2021. At the same time, the number of Canadian residents that returned by air from visiting abroad via kiosk-equipped airports (1.2 million) was two and a half times that from October 2021,” it said.
“Compared with October 2021, over 1.3 million more Canadian residents—for a total of 1.6 million—returned from trips to the United States through land ports with electronic sensors.”
On October 1, all COVID-19 border restrictions, including vaccination, mandatory use of the ArriveCAN app, and any testing and quarantine requirements, were removed for all travellers entering Canada by land, air, or sea. The discontinuation of border restrictions may have contributed to the additional 242,500 Canadian residents that returned by air and automobile in October 2022, compared with September, said StatsCan.
Mikhail Nilov
Arrivals of non-resident visitors from overseas countries (282,500) and the United States (287,600) at Canadian airports equipped with primary inspection kiosks (PIKs) totalled 570,100 in October, more than doubling those who arrived in October 2021 (263,400), it said.
“In October, 1.6 million Canadian residents returned from visiting the United States, crossing by automobile via IPIL-equipped land ports. Although this is a jump of more than 1.3 million trips from October 2021 (262,200), it is just over three-quarters (76.2%) of the 2.1 million trips recorded for the same month in 2019, before the pandemic.
“Compared with September, 171,000 more Canadian residents returned from the United States in October, an unseasonable jump. In the two years before the pandemic, however, October experienced a 7% drop from September in the number of Canadians that drove back from the United States.”
(Mario Toneguzzi is a veteran of the media industry for more than 40 years and named in 2021 a Top Ten Business Journalist in the world and only Canadian)
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