Nearly 900,000 fewer people went to the U.S. in March as cross-border travel plummets
The number of cross-border travellers going from Canada to the U.S. dropped by nearly 900,000 in March compared to the same month last year, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data — easily one of the worst year-over-year drops recorded outside of the COVID-19 health crisis.
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While 900k sounds like a lot, I'd be curious how much this varies over say the last 10 years. Only including one year of data seems a bit self serving
In % it's pretty bad...
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/250410/dq250410c-eng.htm
Focus on Canada and the United States
In March 2025, the number of arrivals to Canada by US residents by air increased 1.2% from the same month in 2024, while arrivals by automobile decreased 10.6%.
In March 2025, Canadian residents flew back from 719,500 trips to the United States, which represented a 13.5% decline from the same month in 2024. For Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the United States, March 2025 saw a decline of 31.9% to 1.5 million. This was the third consecutive month of year-over-year decline.
Bad in which sense? 86% are still travelling to a fascist country, thats arguably pretty bad.
Most people's international travel plans are usually months in advance. Dropping so quickly is actually surprising to me.
a 15 percent drop so quickly in something people habitually do is pretty impactful. The article itself indicates those 600k people represents an almost 17% drop from Canada.
Yes it does but I'm curious if similar swings happen in other years. That link only shows the past 5 years which is tainted from COVID downswings and upswings.
I'm sure the Cheeto is having an effect on travel but only looking at data from one year doesn't prove it was directly related to his policies. For instance it can be travel stabilizing after a surge post pandemic.
It's a year on year comparison, meaning that it's down compared to the same month a year ago, which is a good reference point because it was post COVID and is the year that should be the most similar to the current one since it's pretty useless to compare numbers from a decade ago when our population was lower.
The pandemic surge had ended in 2024 since everything reopened in 2022.
Like the article says, it is by far the largest drop year over year outside Covid.