Various data is pointing to traveller volumes in Canada being up year-over-year.
It would be a stretch to call this a boom, however. And there are instances where data seem to conflict, or point in different directions depending on whether it is for international visitors who enter the country through B.C entry points or for those who use the country’s largest eight airports.
Statistics Canada released data yesterday that tallied all screened passengers at the largest eight airports in the country in October. It calculated 4.7 million screened passengers, which was higher than the 4.6 million screened passengers in October 2023 and the 4.5 million screened passengers in October 2019.
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