Canadians are still boycotting travel to the US

New data reveals another month of travel declines

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The Canadian boycott of travel to the United States is still going strong over a year after vacationing in America became taboo in Canada. The latest preliminary data reveal that March 2026 was another terrible month for American travel. 

A long-running boycott of the United States

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Canadians began what has since become a long-running boycott of travel to the United States shortly after Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. Trump was quick to attack his northern neighbors, and it hasn't gone well for him. 

Canadians are boycotting because of Trump

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While many Canadians were initially angry at Trump for how he spoke about Canada, a deluge of new tariffs, coupled with the President's rhetoric about his desire to make Canada the 51st state, combined to drive a new anti-Americanism. 

Political tensions led to the situation

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“Starting in early 2025, travel trends among Canadian residents shifted alongside the political tensions between Canada and the United States,” Statistics Canada explained. 

The travel boycott is proving to be costly

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Canadians quickly banded together to boycott American products, services, and travel, but it is the travel boycott that is costing the United States. Some early estimates from late 2025 put the cost of travel boycotts to the US at $5.7 billion. 

Canadians drove the $5.7 billion loss

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While Canadians weren't fully responsible for costing the United States $5.7 billion, the US Travel Association, the group that issued the estimate, noted that the loss of travel from Canada was the driving factor behind the revenue hit. 

An important source of foreign visitors

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Canadians costing the United States billions makes a lot of sense since they were the largest source of foreign visitors to the United States in the years before President Trump returned to office. Tens of millions of visitors came from Canada.

Canadian travel numbers in 2024

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In 2024, Canadian visits to the United States totaled 39 million and represented 75% of all Canadian international travel that year, according to Statistics Canada. However, that figure has been falling ever since Trump returned to office. 

A massive decline in visitors in 2025

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In 2025, Canadians made 29.1 million visits to the United States, which was down by 25.4% when compared to the previous year. The latest figures for March 2026 show that the boycott is still going strong and that return trips are still declining. 

The early data from March 2026

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On April 13th, Statistics Canada released its early travel data for March, and it reported that return trips from the United States were down once again, meaning that the boycott of travel to the US in Canada still has a lot of steam. 

Return trips fell by nearly 10%

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Overall return trips from the United States stood at roughly two million, a decline of 7.6% year over year. This decline was on top of another huge travel plunge that happened in March 2025, when return trips fell by a whopping 24%. 

Air and automobile return declines

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In March 2026, the leading decline came from return trips via air, which were down by a massive 13.4% from the same period last year. Air travel return trips in March 2025 fell by 7.8% from 2024. This makes the declines a two-year trend. 

The third month of a new trend

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“For the third consecutive month, more Canadians flew to overseas destinations than drove to the US—flipping a long-established pattern,” Forbes explained about the data. 

The drop in automobile returns was smaller

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Automobile return trips from the United States also declined, but this drop was far more subdued. Statistics Canada reported that automobile returns dipped by 4.5%. In March 2025, automobile returns from south of the border fell by 31.4%. 

Automobile returns fell by 35% over two years

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Forbes pointed out that automobile return trips were down roughly 35% over two years, which the outlet claimed has addressed “a massive, sustained economic blow to the US economy that shows no sign of reversing in 2026.”

Canadians used to spend a lot in the US

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The outlet also noted that the US Commerce Department's National Travel and Tourism Office previously estimated that Canadian tourists had injected $20.5 billion into the US economy in 2024, and that if a February 2025 estimate about what a 10% drop in travel could cost America, then the Canadian travel boycott has likely cost the US $4.5 billion.

Americans are still visiting the Canada

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Despite the Canadian boycott, Americans are still traveling to Canada. The early travel data from March 2026 found that US visitors by air and automobile to Canada increased by 4% in March to 1.1 million, the second month of reversals after a trend that saw 12 months of year-over-year travel declines. 

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