U.S. road trip destinations seeing signs of Canadians staying away [Video]

In regions where Canadian and American tourism are closely linked, there are signs that rhetoric from the White House and the drumbeat of a trade war are starting to affect business.

While Upstate New York has long been an attractive destination for road trippers from eastern Ontario and western Quebec, heated rhetoric about a U.S.-Canada trade war and annexation threats appears to be cooling interest.

Straddling the St. Lawrence River between Ontario and New York, the Thousand Islands is so integrated, it has a bi-national tourism board that promotes destinations on both sides of the boundary.

“Regardless of anybody’s feelings of the policy in the U.S. or Canada, we can unequivocally say that the rhetorical piece, the tariffs piece, the widening [exchange rate gap] is hurting Canadian visitation into the United States,” said Corey Fram, director of the Thousand Islands International Tourism Council.

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