OTTAWA — Despite the sliding Canadian dollar, travel to overseas countries continued to increase as Canadian residents took 837,000 trips in ********, up 2.2% from October, according to Statistics Canada.

Meanwhile, travel from Canada to the United States remained stable.

Canadian residents took 4.7 million trips to the United States in ********, relatively unchanged from October.

While same-day car travel rose 1.3%, overnight travel to the United States declined 1.4%, led by a 2.6% decrease in overnight car trips. Canadian residents took 683,000 overnight air trips in ********, up 2.2% from October and the highest figure recorded since record keeping began in 1972.

United States residents took 1.7 million trips to Canada in ********, down 2.5% from October.

Overnight travel decreased 1.7%, led by a 2.7% decline in overnight plane travel. Same-day car travel from the United States was down 4.1% to 593,000 same-day car trips.

Travel from overseas countries rose 3.2% in ******** to 404,000 trips.

The rise in travel from overseas countries was widespread, as 10 of the top 12 overseas markets recorded increases. The largest percentage increase was in travel from Mexico (+16.0%). The largest percentage decrease was in travel from France (-1.7%).