Dramatic drop in Canadians touring to the US following Trump’s commerce battle

That is the second consecutive month-to-month decline and the second decline within the variety of vacationers since March 2021.

There was a 40% lower in leisure bookings in February to the USA, Flight Centre Journey Group, a serious Canadian journey company, instructed Enterprise Insider. 

“Whereas Canadians stay desperate to journey, they’re more and more shifting their focus to locations exterior the US,” a spokesperson for the company, Amra Durakovic, instructed Enterprise Insider.

Almost half of 1,500 Canadians who took half in a Leger survey stated they have been much less more likely to journey to the US in comparison with a 2024 survey.

A drop in Canadian vacationers could price the US financial system, in response to the US Journey Affiliation, which estimated {that a} 10% lower might result in $2.1 billion in misplaced spending and lead to 14,000 job losses.

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States that may almost certainly be affected embrace Florida, Texas, Nevada, California, and New York, locations the place Canadian snowbirds aka retirees usually frequent in winter to flee the cruel chilly.

Trump doubled the forthcoming aluminum and metal levies on Canada on Tuesday prompting Canada to impose 25% retaliatory tariffs on round $21 billion of American items, specifically U.S.-made metal and aluminum, computer systems, sports activities tools, and sure forged iron merchandise, amongst others, in response to CBC.

“We is not going to stand idly by whereas our iconic metal and aluminum industries are being unfairly focused,” Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc stated.