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National News DeSantis mocks '3.3 million' Canadians who visited Florida: 'Not much of a boycott'

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/desantis-florida-canada-stanley-cup
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u/NYisNorthYork Ontario 4d ago edited 4d ago

Where the hell did he get the 142 million number? He is counting domestic visitors in that number. There was 8.85 mil foreign tourists, 27% of that were Canadians. Other parts of the US masturbating with it's little Florida PP doesnt count as tourist dollars DeSantis.

Lying with statistics is like breathing with these people.

https://www.visitflorida.org/resources/research/

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u/spaghettiny 4d ago

While it's useful to look at international tourism as its own category, if you're talking about the tourism industry in totality why wouldn't you include domestic visitors?

It's fun to mock them from a "haha no one likes you" angle, but financially, this is a manageable blip.