The report says Toronto and Vancouver staged 13 matches between 11 June and 19 July, and the travel bump was visible around key dates.
That is the clearest sign of tournament pull: supporters were not just watching from abroad, they were travelling with the schedule.
The update says 33,600 more arrivals came in June from the 15 overseas countries involved in World Cup matches in Toronto and Vancouver than in the same month of 2025. That was reported as a 28.6% year-on-year increase.
Three countries drove most of it:
Together, they reportedly made up 67% of the increase. The report also says every participating country posted a rise except Türkiye, while Oceania recorded its biggest increase since 2010, excluding the pandemic period.
The wider picture looks important too. The report says Canada welcomed 811,000 non-US overseas residents in June, up 3.4%, with air travel accounting for 85.2% of arrivals. Growth from Europe, the Americas outside the United States, and Oceania outweighed a decline from Asia.
The next question is whether this was a one-month surge or the start of a longer tourism tail. With World Cup activity running into July, attention now turns to whether host-city momentum can carry into the next quarter and leave Canada with a legacy that lasts beyond the final whistle.