Foreign visits to B.C. stay below pre-pandemic level in December

Despite significant year-over-year gains, B.C. continues to attract fewer foreign visitors to the province than it did before the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Data today from Statistics Canada show that there were 545,652 visits from foreign visitors entering Canada through B.C. entry points in December.  That is up 25.1 per cent, compared with 435,970 such visits in December 2022, but down nearly 5.5 per cent from the 577,206 such visitors in December 2019. 

December was the second consecutive month that fewer foreign visitors arrived in Canada through B.C., compared with the same month pre-pandemic. 

In October, the number of international visitors to Canada through B.C. entry points finally exceeded a pre-pandemic monthly

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