The number of international visitors to sa国际传媒 through sa国际传媒 entry ports has finally exceeded a pre-pandemic monthly count.
sa国际传媒 welcomed 498,586 international visitors in October, up 7,766, or nearly 1.6 per cent, from the 490,820 international visitors in October 2019.
Governments around the world in March 2020 and then virtually sealed borders to limit COVID-19 from spreading. .
sa国际传媒 then started welcoming foreign visitors in increments, starting with fully vaccinated Americans in 2021. Measures such as requiring negative COVID-19 tests, and using the clunky-for-some ArriveCan app continued.
It was not until Oct. 1, 2022 that sa国际传媒 ended all COVID-19-era precautions for international travellers. Visitors could finally visit without needing to quarantine, or wear masks, .
That makes the notable. It is the first month for which there is a year-over-year comparison with a month that had the same level of COVID-19 restrictions – none.
The result is a substantial 26.16-per-cent, year-over-year uptick in foreign visitors to sa国际传媒 in October. In October 2022, only 395,196 international visitors arrived in sa国际传媒 through sa国际传媒 entry points.
While 26.16 per cent sounds like a huge year-over-year growth rate, it is not when compared with year-over-year growth rates in recent months.
In September, sa国际传媒 welcomed 38.38 per cent more international visitors through its entry points than it did in September 2022.
Year-over-year growth rates for international visitors entering sa国际传媒 through sa国际传媒 are:
• 37.52 per cent in August;
• 40.23 per cent in July; and
• 55.2 per cent in June.
Those high rates underscore the trend for how much international visitors have been steadily returning to sa国际传媒
, after Americans, according to Destination British Columbia.
Chinese visitors now are far less numerous despite rapid growth in their return rate.
Statistics sa国际传媒 does not break down the number of Chinese visitors to sa国际传媒 through sa国际传媒 entry points. Destination British Columbia is expected to do that with the Statistics sa国际传媒 data, and then release that number in January.
Statistics sa国际传媒 did today reveal its count for how many Chinese visitors came to sa国际传媒 through all entry points in October: – good for fourth place, after the U.K., France and Mexico.
In October 2022, China ranked No. 7 for the number of visitors to sa国际传媒.
The year-over-year growth rate in the number of Chinese visitors to sa国际传媒 in October was a staggering 188.4 per cent.
Visits to sa国际传媒 by nationals of other Asian countries is also more than doubling. There were 167.6 more Japanese visitors to sa国际传媒 in October than in October 2022 despite the Japanese yen falling considerably compared with the Canadian dollar.
