Canadians’ travel boycott of U.S. continues—September visits down 29% vs. 2024

Canadian visitation to the U.S. remains down sharply since President Donald Trump’s return to office, “signaling a persistent shift away from the United States by Canadian residents in their travel preferences,” according to a recent report from Statistics Canada. The slight increase in Canadian visitors to the U.S. this year is something of a mirage “largely due to a base-year effect,” the statistical analysis organization said, referring to a statistical distortion occurring because 2025 visitation was extraordinarily low. Inbound travel into the U.S. “declined sharply” in spring of 2025 “following geopolitical tensions,” Statistics Canada noted in the latest report. After President Donald Trump began calling Canada “the 51st state,” then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadians not to vacation south of the border, kicking off a travel boycott that has continued for 17 months.