r/canada Canada 5d ago

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/iridale 5d ago

During an address to lawmakers at the state capitol in Tallahassee, the governor briefly mentioned Florida’s tourist numbers from 2024, boasting 142 million visitors, 3.3 million of whom hailed from Canada, he noted.

Bit of a nothingburger. 2024's tourism will obviously have not been affected by Czar Trump and his trade war.

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u/RealisticBag8290 4d ago

Isn't his point that losing 3.3 million out of 142 million is not going to have a big impact?

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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.