{"id":175978,"date":"2026-08-20T19:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/175978\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:15:16","slug":"tens-of-thousands-flooded-into-canada-for-the-world-cup-travel-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/175978\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands flooded into Canada for the World Cup, travel data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PNG<\/a> Soccer fans watch the FIFA World Cup 2026 knockout game between Canada and Morocco at Jack Poole Plaza in downtown Vancouver on July 4. (Credit: Jason Payne\/PNG files) <\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of visitors streamed into Canada during the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> in June, Statistics Canada said Thursday. <\/p>\n

Toronto<\/a> and Vancouver<\/a> hosted 13 World Cup games between June 11 and July 19, involving teams from 15 overseas countries. The two cities saw higher volumes of arrivals from all participating countries, with the exception of T\u00fcrkiye. <\/p>\n

Total arrivals from the 15 countries were up 28.6 per cent or 33,600 in June compared to the year before. <\/p>\n

Visitors from Panama increased by 10,700, Australia by 7,700 and Germany by 5,100, accounting for 67 per cent of the total year-over-year increase. <\/p>\n

Arrivals from the Oceania region were up the most since 2010, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic. This coincided with the World Cup, during which Australia and New Zealand played three matches in Vancouver. <\/p>\n

Arrivals by air<\/a> by Australian residents peaked on June 12, ahead of their World Cup match in Vancouver, while air arrivals by residents of Panama peaked on June 16, the day before their match in Toronto. Air arrivals by German residents peaked on June 19, a day before their World Cup match in Toronto. <\/p>\n

June’s consumer price index<\/a> showed that prices for traveller accommodations rose by 19.4 per cent in Ontario and 20 per cent in British Columbia, mostly driven by price hikes in Toronto and Vancouver during the World Cup. <\/p>\n

With World Cup activity continuing into July, some of the tourism tailwind could have persisted into the start of the third quarter, said Desjardins senior economist Kari Norman in a note. <\/p>\n

Statistics Canada said Thursday that overall, 811,000 non-U.S. overseas residents arrived in Canada in June, up 3.4 per cent from the same month one year earlier, with the majority or 85.2 per cent of those arrivals by air. <\/p>\n

Arrivals from Europe, the Americas (excluding the United States) and Oceania drove the increase, more than offsetting a decrease in arrivals from Asia that month. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Canadian residents returned from\u00a03.2 million trips abroad in June, up 3.6 per cent and the third straight month of year-over-year increases. Outside of the U.S., Canadian return trips were 906,400 from overseas countries in June, inching up 0.2 per cent from a year earlier. <\/p>\n

Trans-border travel to the United States also continued to grow in June, with Canadian residents returning from 2.3 million trips to the U.S., a five per cent year-over-year increase and the third consecutive month of growth following 15 consecutive months of decreases. <\/p>\n

A total of three million trips to Canada by U.S. residents were recorded in June, up\u00a06.1 per cent from the same month in 2025 and the fifth consecutive month of year-over-year increases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soccer fans watch the FIFA World Cup 2026 knockout game between Canada and Morocco at Jack Poole Plaza…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,8551,55796,1672,3543],"class_list":["post-175978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-downtown-vancouver","tag-overseas-countries","tag-statistics-canada","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}