If you were a citizen of another country like Canada, would you be traveling to the US?

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Return trips among Canadians road-tripping to U.S. fell a whopping 23% in February

One Canadian travel agency even reported that leisure bookings to the U.S. (meaning travel for pleasure, not business) took a swan dive in February, plummeting 40 per cent compared with the same month last year.

The agency, Flight Centre Travel Group, noted that Canadians had not stopped travelling completely but rather were looking to travel to locations outside the U.S.

As for what the absence of millions of Canadians could mean for the U.S. economy, some small businesses in border towns are already seeing a drop in northern visitors. The U.S. Travel Association said that a 10 per cent reduction in those visits could mean a $2.1-billion hit to the American economy and thousands of job losses.


YABBUT....................... something not quite right about that graph above, the lowest February automobile trips happened in 2021 and 2022? Weren't THEY Joe Biden years??
Then I was reminded that those were Covid years so travel either way was WAY DOWN. Thankfully one of my regulars noticed and pointed me in the right direction.

Meanwhile..............
I have no plans to travel back to the US any time soon, but the question I posed as the thread title remains - If you were a traveler and not an American, would you want to visit the US at this time? 

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