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@muddy has done an admirable job of compiling stacks of objective evidence that Canadians are indeed avoiding (and/or cancelling) travel to the USA in huge, huge numbers.
Before you jump in with inaccurate speculation about how I come to my conclusions, try the Google with search terms like
canadian travel old orchard maine
decline canadian air travel to united states
Judging what is going on across Canada by looking at the one Airbnb in your own personal experience is the very definition of living in an information cocoon.
It is also more than likely that if American hosts have strict cancellation policies, that Canadians who had booked months ahead are not going to cancel their Airbnb bookings or they could lose a significant amount of money.
What would be relevant would be noticing if there is a decline in bookings from Canadians since the 51st state disrespectful nonsense and the tariffs put in place, not bookings from Canadians made before all this.
It also isn’t just the tariffs and 51st state BS that are keeping Canadians from travelling to the US- unless you are white, you stand a good chance of being detained by ICE, who seem to be targetting anyone who isn’t white (and even a white Canadian woman who has been legally conducting business in the US and had applied for a visa at the southern border was put in chains and thrown in prison a couple weeks ago) and heaven forbid you have a tattoo of any kind- you might be accused of being a gang member and sent to be tortured in an El Salvadorian prison.
I expect that’s a factor – although I have read several news reports from Canadians telling reporters “I walked away from my deposit…” some losing thousands of dollars. However, not everyone can afford to do this.
…and the tourism industry will sadly be affected by the weird Greenland and Canada BS for YEARS. Make no mistake, the Buffoon in Chief has no clue about what he is doing to the economy, our relationships with the rest of the world, and ur day to day struggles with cost-of-living.
A host I know in West Virginia (scenic mountains getaway type place) said that her business is way down. She blames liberal backlash against Airbnb due to the Joe Gebbia news.
This is also a factor. The Airbnb Community forum has hundreds of posts from both hosts and guests saying they are leaving Airbnb because of Airbnb’s ignoring of this backlash and lack of appropriate response. At this point I’m quite sure they have received thousands of emails and feedback forms from users demanding that Gebbia resign from the board or that he be told to or voted out. All Airbnb has done, as far as I’m aware, is issue a lame statement saying Gebbia does not represent the views of Airbnb.
And while Gebbia and threats, tariffs, and disrespect shown to Canada and other nations might seem two separate issues, they really aren’t- it all has to do with disgust at the the illegal and horrific things this administration is doing.
Depends on what media people read and watch, though. If all they watch is Fox and participate in right wing echo chamber social media, they don’t even see the negative backlash, and if they do, they dismiss it as “fake news” from the “radical left”. (A survey showed that something like 40% of Fox viewer get their “news” soley from Fox.)
I am on some other forums and it’s unbelievable the bubble of misinformation and rejection of facts the MAGA posters operate on.
For example – most people in New England are probably unaware that the Premier of British Columbia has publicly urged people living in his jurisdiction to avoid travel to the United States, and has put restrictions on public servants travelling to the U.S.A for work (i.e. professional training or conferences). However that kind of granular local news gives those living at a distance a better sense of on-the-ground reaction.
I’m personally curious about reaction in Europe, Japan, Australia, and I don’t gt a lot coming across my radar screen.
Here’s a Toronto story that says a lot about the intensity and depth of Canadian reaction, but I doubt it will get picked up in Europe or Australia:
I peruse an online forum from a heavily expat area of Mexico (not the area where I live). There is an organization there which is expat-oriented, sort of a liason for them with the local community, they hold seminars on various things of interest, consulate reps come there to assist people with mail-in ballots, I think there’s a cafe and other resources there. The board of directors consists of both Mexicans and foreign residents.
No one is allowed to sport political paraphernalia there, and a few weeks ago some MAGAs walked in, then put their red MAGA hats on once they were inside. A Mexican who was there grabbed one of the hats off one of the guys and tossed it on the floor. All those MAGAs proceeded to physically assault the Mexican. The cops were called, they got arrested, and I hope they get deported.
Imagine being allowed to make your home in another country as an ex-pat, then assaulting a local because they objected to you blatantly bringing your US politics to their community, where it doesn’t belong. That pretty much sums up the combination of ignorance and arrogance that defines MAGAs to me.
I’m pretty sure these guys who were outraged about Mexican pushback against their MAGA hats were cheering two weeks earlier when American border guards refused entry to a French scientist because he had written an article criticizing Trump’s science policy.
Living in Canada – we’ve kind of rolled our eyes at the occasional American turning up wearing MAGA on this side of the border, but with recent threats to our sovereignty I think they’d be risking an accidental elbow-up from a Canadian hothead (not me) if they turned up like that in April 2025 – esp after new tariffs today.
Sorry to stir folks up - not my intent. Just informing those on this forum of our personal experience, which to me, indicates not all Canadians feel the same way regarding the USA as we might have been led to believe. We have had significantly more bookings from our Canadian neighbors than we ever have in the past, and all have been booked since the first of the year.
Not all of any demographic feels the same way about anything. If you were led to believe that, I’m not sure where you got that idea.
And just because some Canadians are still travelling to the US doesn’t mean they aren’t opposed to what the US administration has been doing.
