Canada’s home journey growth confirmed no indicators of slowing down. New Airbnb knowledge confirmed that home bookings jumped by greater than 10 p.c1 within the first half of the yr in comparison with 2024—confirming the momentum in home journey has actual endurance. Travellers are selecting to discover nearer to residence, spending their journey {dollars} domestically and supporting Canadian hosts, small companies, and communities in doing so.
This surge in home journey is occurring nationwide. Almost each province and territory—12 out of 132—noticed progress this yr, with smaller cities and rural communities attracting extra guests, driving the financial advantages of tourism past main hubs.
Provinces main the surge in home journey
Within the first half of 2025, bookings by Canadians in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan climbed by greater than 20 p.c year-over-year,3 underscoring vital progress in each city and rural communities.
The overwhelming majority of bookings in Canada have been already home, so to see a surge this huge is very vital. Canadians are persevering with to discover their very own nation, and that’s delivering actual financial advantages for hosts, small companies, and communities nationwide. Home journey is turning into a long-lasting a part of our identification, and Canadian hosts are serving to make that attainable in communities of all sizes.
Hannah Parish, Nation Supervisor, Canada
Canadian locations driving the home journey growth
From coastal cities to mountain escapes, Canadian travellers are spreading out and discovering new corners of the nation, with locations out west seeing a surge in home bookings. Among the prime trending locations embody:
- West Kelowna, BC
- Regina, SK
- Gatineau, QC
- Langley, BC
- Whistler, BC
- Canmore, AB
- Blue Mountain, ON
- Ucluelet, BC
Canadians are increasing their horizons overseas
Canadians are exhibiting extra urge for food for non-US worldwide journeys. There’s been an almost double-digit enhance in worldwide bookings to locations outdoors the US4 in comparison with the primary half of 2024, with a double-digit enhance in bookings to Japan, Brazil, the Philippines, France, Thailand, and Mexico.
Prime trending worldwide locations for Canadians in 2025
Canadian friends are reserving journeys to a various vary of worldwide locations5 together with:
- Sumida, Japan
- Naniwa Ward, Japan
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Nakano, Japan
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Yuma, Dominican Republic
- Paris, France
- Los Cabos, Mexico
- Bahia de Banderas, Mexico
Canadians are reserving with Airbnb greater than ever earlier than. What’s modified is the place they’re travelling to—a seismic shift in journey behaviour that’s exhibiting no indicators of slowing down, and we’re grateful that hosts are capable of play a job in serving to Canadians discover Canada and the world.
– Hannah Parish, Nation Supervisor, Canada
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