{"id":3027,"date":"2025-05-26T13:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/2025\/05\/26\/trade-tensions-are-redrawing-canadians-travel-map\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:41:15","slug":"trade-tensions-are-redrawing-canadians-travel-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/canadian-analysis\/featured-analysis\/insights\/trade-tensions-are-redrawing-canadians-travel-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade tensions are redrawing Canadians&#8217; travel map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-block  pos-rel\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-inner-block  section-inner\" style=\"border-radius:0x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column  mar-r-hlf is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:8%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/05\/Icon-econ-7-May25.png?quality=80&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12779\" style=\"width:60px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:92%\">\n<p class=\" mar-t-qtr\">Demand for travel in the U.S. among Canadians has seen a plunge in early 2025. That means fewer services exports for the U.S. and potentially a larger net U.S. trade deficit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column  mar-r-hlf is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:8%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/05\/Icon-econ-8-May25.png?quality=80&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12780\" style=\"width:60px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:92%\">\n<p class=\" mar-t-qtr\">Less Canadian travel abroad could mean more spending closer to home, potentially boosting Canadian tourism demand and other discretionary purchases this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-qtr pad-t-0\">The travel season is looking different for many Canadians \u2013 instead of going to the U.S., more are opting for domestic or other international destinations this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-qtr pad-t-0\">The &#8220;buy Canadian&#8221; movement, sparked by consumers\u2019 discontent with disruptive U.S. trade policies showed up in early travel data from Statistics Canada, which points to a persistent decline in the number of Canadians returning from the U.S. in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-qtr pad-t-0\">April saw the steepest drop with number of Canadians flying back from the U.S. falling 20% year-over-year, while land travel from the U.S. slumped by an even larger 26%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-qtr pad-t-0\">The timing of the Easter holiday may have distorted the data, but it would have masked an even larger decline in April. The annual comparison for April could have been propped up by the Easter long weekend falling in April this year as opposed to the end of March in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-qtr pad-t-0\">Falling travel to the U.S. doesn&#8217;t mean Canadians have stopped going abroad altogether\u2014they&#8217;ve simply chosen other destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-qtr pad-t-0\">In April, 143,000 fewer Canadians flew back from the U.S., but 114,000 more\u2014a 10% increase\u2014returned from other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"everviz-hiivLVXai\" class=\"everviz-hiivLVXai\" data-view=\"graph\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-slow-u-s-travel-demand-could-grow-u-s-trade-deficit\">Slow U.S. travel demand could grow U.S. trade deficit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-0\">The decline in U.S. travel isn&#8217;t unique to Canada. Arrivals to the U.S. from countries other than Canada and Mexico fell from a 5% increase in January to a 1.6% decline over March and April. Most of that drop come from fewer Asian and Western European visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-0\">International travel spending falls under the services trade. When foreigners travel and spend in the U.S., those expenditures become services exports. Expenditures from Americans travelling and spending abroad is then considered services imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-0\">Lower demand for travel to the U.S. means less travel dollar collected. That will shrink total U.S. exports and slow gross domestic product growth (if there aren\u2019t major changes in Americans travelling abroad). But, the impact will be marginal since tourism accounts for a relatively small share of the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr pad-b-0\">More significantly, it will widen the overall trade deficit\u2014the opposite of what the current U.S. administration is trying to achieve through import tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-potential-upsides-for-canadian-tourism-this-year\">Potential upsides for Canadian tourism this year<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr\">More Canadian staying closer to home is usually positive for the domestic tourism industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr\">On average, Canadians spend more in the U.S. than Americans spend in Canada. The spending saved from trips to the U.S. could be spent on traveling to other parts of the world or within Canada. It could also be spent on other domestic discretionary items such as food, events and retail. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr\">Indeed, as we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/economics\/for-canadian-tourism-canadians-matter-most\/\">noted during the pandemic<\/a> when international borders closed, when it comes to tourism within Canada, it\u2019s Canadians that matter most. In 2024, domestic travel generated more than three-quarters of total tourism demand in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr\">The tourism sector could be one of the few silver linings In the Canadian economy, amid a global trade war. However, slower population growth and a softening labour market could pose headwinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mob-pad-b-qtr\">In Canada, we expect trade disruptions will continue to hinder job growth, pushing the unemployment rate higher. 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