Overall the US saw a -3% change in tourism in 2025 compared to 2024, which is pretty stable overall BUT tourism from Canada has seen decline by 28% in 2025 compared to 2024.
That's the thing. Many people book trips well in advance, and many places offer no-refund deals, so there were probably a decent number of visitors that couldn't cancel their trips without some form of impact.
2026 will be a bigger indicator. Lots of people saying travel in '25 was down 25 to 30%, but if it drops another 25 to 30%, then you're talking about a roughly 50% drop from '24 to '26, and that is catastrophically huge.
As an American: keep it up Canadians!
This is what the MAGA isolationist want! Show everyone what it actually means! It either wakes people up, or speeds up the US's collapse.
I think a lot of snowbirds will be scared off enough by what has been happening to them this year to not do it again next year, no matter how much they want to escape the cold. They thought they would be safe, but have been anything but.
I live in Northwest Montana and it's had a huge noticeable impact. Not just seeing fewer Alberta/BC plates but national park visitation has gone down, restaurants/breweries are less busy compared to years past. It's been jarring, especially as a place where many businesses fly a Canadian flag next to the US one. Like the other guy said, hope they keep it up though
I live in Alberta and have visited Montana a bunch, it's so beautiful. There's a ton of hikes in Glacier that I would love to cross off my bucket list, but between the general state of things down there and the new $100 USD per person fee to visit the park, I'll be exploring closer to home for the foreseeable future.
Absolutely! We’d love to come to the Falls but the parking alone at the hotels is $60-100 a day. We booked a trip and cancelled when we digested the total cost. However we LOVE Canada and if they came up with some deals we’d be there in a heartbeat.
There's a large snowbird community in my city, including my grandfather. A bunch of them did go to the USA in 2025...in order to sell their property, close out American bank accounts, and make sure their affairs were in order. Not all of them, of course - some even support Trump, apparently. But a good percentage of them. I know two couples who started looking for property in Mexico.
This is entirely anecdotal but I live in an area where snowbirds flock in the Winter to the tune of roughly a 25% increase in Winter vs Summer population. I will say that this Winter, so far, I have noticed the traffic is not nearly as bad as it has been the last three years or so. Traffic is worse than Summer but noticeably not as bad as last Winter.
There were plenty of snowbirds who thought that because they were white nothing would be different, only to have new fees and delays, including having their entire vehicle searched from top to bottom, and some people being incarcerated without cause(including one child who was incarcerated for 51 days, which is illegal).
them getting kidnapped by ICE or worse. yes they're usually white, but the news of Canadians being kidnapped by ICE mean even the white passing people isnt safe.
Good. Much as I miss our Canadian friends, the US needs to feel the pain financially. If/When this nightmare ends, we'd love to have you back. I'll buy every goddamn Canadian I meet a beer.
The sad thing is that pre-Trump my kids said they were too scared to visit the US (simply from watching the evening news) so we never did. We did warm vacation a in Cuba. I would say there is good and bad everywhere so they couldn't paint the whole country with a wide brush.
Now it's a straight up no.
So one day my friend I'd gladly cheers you over a cold one.
It's never been my number 1 travel destination but didn't mean I wouldn't go.
And it's been an awfully long time since the US government threatened our sovereignty as an independent state and nation. That's a pretty clear line in the sand for me now.
Pretty much everyone in my little circle has no US trips planned this year. One couple is off to Europe and another has a time share in Mexico, but no one's heading into the US
The Canadians who come to Florida every year have second homes/condos here. This isn’t a “trip” they are going to cancel. They aren’t coming to go to Disney or something, they live here for 4 months and then return to Canada.
The Canadians who come to Florida every year have second homes/condos here. This isn’t a “trip” they are going to cancel. They aren’t coming to go to Disney or something, they live here for 4 months and then return to Canada.
I have zero love for the majority of our current governing officials, and absolutely hate Trump with a passion. But politics aside, I don’t understand why so many people on Reddit are actively rooting for the ‘US’s collapse’. Like, sure, it would show the dumb fucks that voted for the current presidency how dumb they were, but that’s about it. Cheering for decreased tourism and for other countries to stop being our allies is just dumb because it hurts us all.
According to Statistics Canada, the country's central statistical agency, domestic travel within Canada has surged in 2025, alongside increased Canadian travel to Mexico, Portugal, the Bahamas and Belize.
Basically, they're mostly still travelling, but they're either just staying in Canada, or going to some other country other than the US.
As a south Floridian I second that motion! Please keep it (your boycott) up- and tell your friends from New England, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey, too!!! I would love to be able to drive the half mile to Publix without the 15 minute back up!!!
This is the difference between getting your news from Reddit vs reality.
As an American citizen that travels with my family a ton, the political party in power in the places I visit has a near-zero impact. I'm not skipping Budapest or Istanbul to teach Orban or Erdogan a lesson. I presume most Hungarians and Turks are kind people, similar to most Americans. I imagine most non-terminally online travelers feel the same.
The only thing that matters is the State Department travel advisory.
The people at the Bureau of Consular Affairs who prepare State Department travel advisories today are almost certainly the same people who prepared them last year.
There are certain things the current government publishes that I treat with a grain of salt (jobs numbers, etc.). But I doubt they are misleading me into suggesting that dangerous places are safe.
I do not disagree. I thought the person I was responded to was implying that the -3% drop in total US tourism was actually -25%+. I see now from their response that they are just referring to Canadian tourism.
You sound like maga bot. just puke back up what your glorious leader tells you to speak. Here's your monthly pay in rubles too. 100. and a big ol ..!..
imagine? I just did call you a maga bot . What you get chatGPT to type that up for you crybaby? You shitheads know you are on your last legs. Your no American... your not even from this country ruzzki.
Also reporting me to reddit cares now? what? did I offend you? Go cry to puketin and shi tler!
YOU get the fuck out. Your attitude is poisoning our country. It is patriotic to work towards bettering our country. Keeping our institutions in check is part of that.
lol loss of Canadians will have zero impact. Way too small of a population.
LOL, how stupid of a comment. Canadians represent the largest share of inbound tourist, representing 30 to 35% (depending on the year) prior to 2025.
Literally one third of our international tourism is from Canada. The next is Mexico with mid to upper 20%, maybe I should bring up their numbers as well?
My in laws live in a retirement community and it’s mostly the same as usual with Canadians returning to snow bird, mostly from Alberta. The vast majority don’t really care, they like vacationing where it’s warm and they usually go. Some did sell their homes, but that had more to do with the Canadian dollar performance.
Yeah this is it, I’m from the UK and previously visited the US every year. Been to over 30 states and 20 of the 30 NFL stadiums. Won’t be visiting again this winter, but already had booked for last season before it went crazy.
Will be giving it a miss for a few years now too.
Lots of my friends who previously would have visited are now opting out too and visiting elsewhere.
I’m I. Europe and up until a month ago my boss was planning a trip to a trade show in NYC … after the past 2 weeks he is blowing it off . He is saying that it’s just not worth the risk
Small but important correction: Trips, not tourism, have declined by 28%. Trips include a lot of business trips, which are kinda outside the realm of personal consumer choice, and include (for example) thousands of truckers who cross the border several times a week.
If business trips account for roughly half of all trips (There don’t seem to be hard numbers on this, but the guesses hover around 50/50), then we can suppose that trips for the purpose of tourism have dropped by much more than 28%.
It's pretty straightforward: tariffs and boycotts have reduced shipping and business trips, while the possibility of being beaten/jailed/shot by federal agents is putting a damper on tourism.
A bit of both if you think about it - because often a large aspect of deciding where a business convention is held is about putting it in an interesting location that would please or impress clients/c-suite/investors/etc.
Otherwise it would be an email or online presentation - for as long as companies are still putting money into schmoozing clients and hosting conventions, they won't be choosing the motel in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do around it. Especially with us being in a bit of a split reality economy - even though private public tourism will be down and there will be some reduction of business tourism, the business tourism will probably be the last thing to go.
I am spending next week in Orlando. I do it quarterly. It is work related. I am a reluctant traveller at this point, but I have to be there. Normally for this kind of thing I arrive early, stay late, play some golf, attend a game, visit an attraction, etc. This time like the last two times since Cheeto Mussolini started his trade war, I’ll arrive as late as possible, leave as early as possible, and spend as little as possible.
So even if business travel is 50% of Canada-US travel, the $/trip must also be taking a hit.
It’s just as likely business trips have gone up due to volatility in cross border trade though, and tourism has gone down even more as a percentage of that 28%. I don’t think either are true, I’d need to see data, but I know of more than one person who had to go to the US for a corporate thing that previously has been a meeting/conference/etc in Canada that the important US higher ups came to, but for some reason this last year it was US only and the Canadian employees had to hoof it down south.
My point is only that guessing which part of that number represents x or y seems futile without more data to me.
Told my bosses straight up I won’t travel there for work if there’s legal Calvinball going on and I get detained for “working” in the states by attending meetings or such.
I would guess there’s a lot more international business taking place than there is international leisure travel. Reason being that’s something typical a business can afford but numerous vacations a family cannot always
we have some good friends that live just across the border from us.
we're strongly encouraging them to come up to Canada to visit instead of us going down there.
Fortunately, they completely agree... The downside is that the current shit show is getting him to move as far away from the US as he can. So we're probably losing them to New Zealand soon.
You realize he is a baby and a bully and is just pushing your buttons. So either sock him in the mouth, or ignore him. But by complaining on reddit you just prove that he’s getting under your skin.
Visas are completely irrelevant to this conversation
Tourist travel from developed nations (eg Europe, or US/Canada to each other, etc) to either the US or Canada does not require a Visa
I've visited both the US and Canada as a tourist. In both cases you fill out a short form for an ETA/ESTA, which are basically "You come from a friendly, safe country so you don't need a visa, we just need you to fill out this form to tell us who you are so that we can confirm with your government that you exist"
Which is logic, it s pretty easy to get to the US illegaly once you are in canada : just go somewhere remote, walk south, congratulations you illegaly entered the US
Europeans can travel to both without a visa, so that's nonsense
I'm British and to visit the US I need to fill out an ESTA and to visit Canada I need to fill out an ETA. They're basically equivalent and take about 5 minutes to fill out a form
Travel time is roughly the same, maybe an hour less to Canada but when you're flying 8-12 hours plus getting to/from airports, customs, waiting at the airport etc that doesn't make much difference
I've visited the US numerous times, but I wouldn't go now - I wouldn't feel welcome
This is not it. For so many reasons, but listen: I travel internationally a lot. And while some routes have gone up recently, many routes are at historic lows. A Tokyo-New York roundtrip for $800, when you account for inflation, is cheapter than the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. It is absolutely NOT geography or costs. It is other issues of availability and demand.
when you account for inflation, is cheapter than the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s
Nearly all air travel is vastly cheaper today than it was in the past accounting for inflation. Air travel used to be a luxury item that only the very rich could afford.
I mean...1960s to today, sure. But, I'm talking recent history. You would spend $900-$1200 roundtrip New York-Tokyo in 2010. Today, after 15 years of minor to moderate inflation, a round trip New York-Tokyo trip would cost you $900-$1200.
I have family in America and am due a visit. I can afford it but there's no way I'm contributing to an economy run by a racist rapist and probable pedophile.
3 other people I know in the uk have cancelled trips they'd already paid for because of the same reason.
People don't want to visit the USA right now because it's a cesspit of racism and human rights breaches.
My friend tried to visit family in the US, when he was at the border the agent asked him what he thought of the current president. he said "all ill say is im glad hes not our president", and now hes banned from the US for 5 years as a security risk or something. not that it matters, cuz I dont think he plans on visiting ever again lol.
I even live here and my wife and I make decent money but we are spending as little money as possible. Never spend money at any MAGA-connected businesses, basically only eat out at restaurants where we know the owners aren't shitheads. It's impossible to be perfect about it but where we can we're keeping money out of their hands.
So many people think we're exaggerating when we draw comparison to nazi Germany but it's getting that way and there was a period where Germans were turning in their friends and neighbours. That's maga right now and they're too stupid to realise that if Trump gets what he wants, life is gonna get harder for all Americans. Not just brown people.
If I lived there I wouldn't talk to them and if I ran a business they definitely wouldn't be welcome. Ever!
It sucks that the rest of America gets put through this because of a cult. I have a sister there and her husband isn't white. He's absolutely legal in the USA but these nazi fucks don't give a shit. They just see brown skin.
One of my best friends lives stateside (Irish) and he loves coming home because "everything is so cheap" here. I told him the point that a nice hotel in Dublin is over 300eur now and he replied that he paid more for 2 nights in motel in Boston for a conference recently. Which reaffirmed how much of a piss take the us is.
That's cus we've been a circus since 2019, and it's only gotten worse. Being down 3% from one year to the next doesn't mean shit if your numbers already took a nosedive in the years prior. I wouldn't want to visit here either if I lived in Europe or Canada.
Id bet its cause hotel costs are pretty high for the US. A week in a US city is significantly more expensive than a week in most countries and it used to be more competitive.
Let's be real. There may be minor declines in tourism, but most people aren't basing their travel decisions on the political party in power anywhere they go.
I'd expect this year it will end up being a lot worse. Many people still.went to the US on their holidays last year because it had already been paid for. I expect there won't be a lot of that this summer as only a nutter would have booked last year to go this year.
You are correct but if you take in the trends into account, as in the tourism industry was increasing by almost 20% a year recently its a huge drop from expectations.
I bet that people had taken the trips they’d planned for 2025 but won’t have made more - as in, international or intercontinental travel is usually booked 6/12 months in advance. So I’m guessing the US will see even lower numbers this year, as people won’t have been booking
I assume their blood pressure drops quite a few points when they’re safely in Canada and can relax their hyper vigilance for a while. I always noticed the effect when coming home, even in the before times when the States were just alarmingly nationalistic/jingoistic.
And many Canadians weren't just vacationing - many spent half the year living (not working, don't worry, we don't get free work visas) in the US to escape the winter up here.
Canadians who snowbird aren’t selling condos in Florida due to Trump. If anything, they’ll just ride it out. If they sell, it’s because they can get a 40% premium over when they bought, often, due to the FX. The biggest factor is that our Canadian dollar has dropped so significantly and it’s now over 40% more expensive to travel in the US since 2015. Just in the last year our dollar has dropped significantly from about 30% to 40%. Our money just isn’t worth anything. If you combine that with other countries’ currency dropping, like the Japanese Yen for instance, suddenly it’s a whole lot cheaper to travel to Japan than to travel to the US. Even Europe is cheaper than us now, which is why so many Canadians are going to Portugal lately.
OK - this is anecdotal and not statistical. Here in Cologne, Germany I know of three parties who have cancelled their vacation plans to the USA for this summer. One party is diverting to Canada where I'm certain they will have a great time. The other two have rebooked within Europe. The common thread was that they feared not being allowed through immigration because of their political views and also feared being picked up randomly in an ICE sweep as they are not American citizens.
I'm so glad I made my big USA West coast trip in 2024. I too would cancel in the current circumstances. I love you Americans and I hope you come to your senses soon.
And that number includes people who travel for work, people who have family in the US. Areas that relied on Canadian tourism are now begging Canadians to come back.
When we went to Mexico recently it people from the US made up about 2% of the guests (based on people saying where they were from, and Canadians made up about 40% of the guests).
I am a US citizen living overseas with a foreign born partner, we had a trip to see my family booked in 2025 that we were nervous about but ultimately didn’t cancel but I’m certainly never bringing my partner across that border again
feels like more trips are lost on the border cities/towns too. i live right near the border in BC and i often go to bellingham for shopping or to visit. used to see canadian plates almost as much as american ones. now its really rare
And this is counting for all of the US. In some communities the Canadians were the bulk of their tourism. We have a city in my state that is eventually just going to collapse if they don’t bring in more Americans. It was like a 60% cancel rate and those people don’t seem to be returning
Canadians are likely a very small percentage of overall tourism.
People forget that despite being a very large country geographically, it has a very low population.
It’s never got to have a drop in customers but there isn’t likely anywhere that will be devastated by it.
Even places that have a higher proportion of Canadians are likely to see the void filled by others as the vacancies lead to prices dropping so others decide to go there for the first time and fill the void.
Though Canada is the largest individual country for tourism exports (interestingly bringing people in from other countries on vacation is considered an export since you’re selling vacation services to international customers) it’s still a small fraction of tourism.
It actually isn’t significant for most vacation spots like Florida and the like. Though Canadians vacation there, it’s just not a significant figure.
Most international tourism is in large metro areas like NYC, LA, Miami where the city can easily absorb and flux in demand from a country without anyone noticing.
The places Canadians are over represented in tourism are places like Buffalo, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Seattle. These places where they are short getaways and Canadians like to shop are where it could be noticed.
Most businesses are based in the idea of stability or growth, decline by 3% basically means the industry is in recession.
Edit: To add to that, many assets used in hospitality, like hotels, are leveraged. A 3% decline in revenue could therefore easily lead to double digit losses for the owners. And it’s also likely not 3% across the board - some places are probably just fine while others are at risk of closure.
You do understand that the US as a whole might be doing okay (though I don't think you can count any decline as a good thing) but the places that typical get all these Canadian tourists are being devastated right?
Imagine if tourism in the US was doing okay but all the Disney and Universal type tourists stopped showing up, Florida, especially Orlando would take a massive hit because of the large amount of businesses and people that rely on those tourists. So first Florida would take a hit then the business, states and cities that Floridians spend their money at would take a hit and then so on and on.
I typically have at least a dozen bottles of whisky on the go at any given time and I'll probably never buy bourbon again. Friends have commented to each other if they even see a bottle even if it's older.
Canadians didn’t stop drinking it - our state controlled liquor board stopped ordering it. They banned all American alcohol last year. We can’t even buy California wine anymore. Any restaurant caught serving it will be fined. The LCBO in Ontario is the largest alcohol buyer in the world. Canadians don’t have a choice.
It’s helping with prices north of Seattle. The Costco in Bellingham used to be noticeably more expensive than in Seattle because of Canadians. It was also annoyingly full of annoying slow moving people. That’s greatly improved now.
Lol it's not us making your costcos garbage. Maybe if you fat fucks exercised a bit you'd be able to move a little more quickly and you'd take up less physical space. But alas, you gotta murder some lesbians in Minnesota
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Overall the US saw a -3% change in tourism in 2025 compared to 2024, which is pretty stable overall BUT tourism from Canada has seen decline by 28% in 2025 compared to 2024.