Canadians made three million fewer trips to the U.S. during summer travel boycott

The weak Canadian dollar is one of the reasons people have held back on travel to the U.S.

Canadian travellers held strong to their boycott of travel to the United States right to the end of the summer, blowing a sizable hole in the U.S. tourism sector, the latest numbers from Statistics Canada show.

In August, the number of Canadian residents returning by vehicle from the U.S. plunged 33.9 per cent year-over-year to 1.9 million, while the number of residents returning by air fell 25.4 per cent to 423,000, the agency said .

Taken together across the peak summer travel period of June to August, Canadians made three million fewer trips to the U.S., a 33.1-per-cent year-over-year decline.

Based on the $695 that Canadians spent on average on trips to the U.S. during the second and thir