'Catastrophic': Canadian bookings for U.S. travel drop sharply

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Trade dispute? Well that is one way to call it. The threats of annexation (to us, Greenland, Panama…) general disrespect, news of people being held at the border for days and then deported, all with ongoing support for the party doing this that ran on this platform is something is else.

&gt; <i>A 10 per cent drop in Canada-U.S. travel would risk 14,000 American job losses and US$2.1 billion in lost spending, the association estimates.</i><p>So it&#x27;s a large-ish visible economic impact but probably distributed over the surface so not felt as an apex problem in ways which will strongly inform the US side of things.<p>If enough of it converts to domestic tourism there will be improvements in consumer spending also fairly widely distributed but the Canadian government may be more motivated to quantify this.

Same happens for Europeans; they do not want to travel to the US. Even some embassies call for caution, like Germany and the UK due to border&#x2F;visa issues that happened.

I cancelled a business trip to the US and did virtual meeting instead. No way I&#x27;m going to a country that detains people on the border for no reason.

Would not want to travel to the US right now if I weren&#x27;t already from here

Stay at home. Don&#x27;t by us. This is what me as a german will do.<p>I can&#x27;t ditch goog or WhatsApp. The other apps I do not use. So, alternatives are less, but Europe will regulate it soon with TERIFFS tariffs so fearsome that you can&#x27;t call them tariffs anymore, but rather terror-ifs. Tariffs on digital goods. Thank you Europe.

I’m not dismissing the trade issue but I’d like to point out that the currency exchange rate is really bad right now, I’m not sure many Canadians can afford to travel these days. Our economy is not doing so hot with raising rents and grocery prices, people are struggling. I think there are multiple factors at play here but Trump’s rhetoric is certainly not helping.

The wider context seems missing: Rapid ramping down of fossil fuel based air travel is needed to mitigate the climate disaster.