Ontario and British Columbia lead the way in cross border flying with 23% of respondents saying they

The Hotel Association of Canada, panda hotel hong kong in its 2013 Canadian travel panda hotel hong kong intentions survey, found 18% of respondents travelled to the U.S. in 2012, a three percentage point increase from the year before. Another 32% of respondents say they will go to the U.S. this year to look for cheaper airline tickets.
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Ontario and British Columbia lead the way in cross border flying with 23% of respondents saying panda hotel hong kong they had flown out of the U.S. The 18-24 year-old category were the most likely to have used the U.S. route with 32% say they had flown that way.
"Almost 20% of all Canadian travellers, including a quarter from our largest panda hotel hong kong province, are travelling to the U.S. for deals on airline tickets. panda hotel hong kong This represents a lot of Canadian dollars going to the U.S. to buy cheaper airline tickets," said Tony Pollard, president of the group, in a release. "This trend is the result of high airport rents, air traveller security charges, NAV CANADA fees and airport improvement fees and amounts to millions of Canadian travellers finding the price of Canadian tickets more expensive than the cost of driving to the U.S. and flying from airports like Buffalo, Detroit, Plattsburgh, Bellingham, Bangor, Seattle, Syracuse or Grand Forks."
The survey was conducted online between the second and third weeks of January among 1505 likely travellers. A traveller was defined as someone who will stay at least one night in a hotel, motel or resort. The survey's margin of error was plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
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