Subject: Re: Desperate Canadian tourism industry goes on offensive with ad
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.democrats.d,talk.politics.guns,sac.politics
From: % <pursent100@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:47:42 -0700
Blue State wrote:
> Canadaâs tourism industry is going on an offensive â rolling out ad
> campaigns in US border states to lure Americans back to the Great
> White North.
>
> US travel to Canada dipped by about 10% in recent months, amid the
> raging trade war between the two neighbors.
>
> In one TV ad running across New England and New York, an American
> tourist â sporting a baseball cap and matching sweater tied around
> his shoulders â sheepishly whispers to a Canadian hotel front desk
> worker that heâs from the land of the free.
>
> The employee looks awkwardly towards him and presses what looks
> like some kind of red panic button â before bursting out a smile
> and walking across the desk to hug him.
>
> Other ads take more of a practical approach, trying instead to
> appeal to Americanâs pocketbooks.
>
> One billboard campaign simply reminds Americans how much further
> their dollar will go north of the 49th parallel.
>
> â$1 USD = $1.43 CAD,â reads the billboard from Destination Ontario,
> which has been spotted in Detroit and Cleveland, among other border
> towns. âSpend less, do more.â
>
> American tourists make up the bulk of visitors to Canada â last
> summer, 78.5%, nearly four out of five visitors to the Great White
> North came from the US.
>
> The drop hasnât been as dramatic as Canadian tourists to the US â
> whoâve boycotted the country en masse, leading to a 30-40% fall in
> air and land travel.
>
> But itâs sure to make a dent in the tourism industry â according to
> Statistics Canada, Americans spent $15.3 billion in the country
> last year.
>
> https://nypost.com/2025/06/21/us-news/canadian-tourism-industry-
> gets-proactive-as-us-visitors-drop/
>
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