Readers of this newsletter have been sharing their stories about cancelled trips to the United States.
The conversation about boycotting U.S. travel began with a newsletter a few weeks ago that included a reader’s letter to a dozen state tourism offices. “Dear American friends” he wrote. “In light of your administration’s unilateral abandonment of its negotiated free trade agreement with Canada, we are reluctantly cancelling all future visits to the wonderful U.S. cultural, commercial and open spaces that we regularly used to enjoy so much.”
The letter prompted newsletter readers to contribute their own stories of cancelled travel plans. Numbers documenting the decline in travel by Canadians to the U.S. are piling up. Now for some specific stories:
“Just to let you know my wife and I have cancelled a planned fall road trip to New Mexico. I have e-mailed the tourism department of New Mexico to advise them. And I also invited them to apply to join Canada. I’ll let you know if they respond.”
“We cancelled our plans to take the grandchildren to Disney due to political situation in the U.S.”
“My husband and I booked a cruise one year ago, sailing from Seattle to Alaska the end of May. We have now made the painful decision to cancel the trip and forfeit a large sum of money, all in U.S. funds. We would feel like hypocrites to do anything but cancel.”
“We were thinking of a day trip [to the U.S.] and also another later in the year. With what’s been happening, these trips are completely off the table. We will vacation other places for the next several years.”
“Just writing to say we cancelled the March Break trip to New York City because of the cruelty from the Trump administration toward the people of Canada.”
Next, I’d like to hear where people are going instead of the United States. Send me your thoughts at rcarrick@globeandmail.com.
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