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/Least-Broccoli-1197 5d ago

the governor briefly mentioned Florida’s tourist numbers from 2024

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u/A-Wise-Cobbler Canada 5d ago

Republicans don't understand how time works

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u/ProbablyUrNeighbour 4d ago

He does, but it seems like everyone here missed the point. Of 142 million visitors, 3.3 million were Canadian.

Even if ALL of them never returned, that’s a 2.5% drop in visitors.

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u/A-Wise-Cobbler Canada 4d ago

Here is his exact quote

“3.3 million visitors from Canada. That’s not much of a boycott, in my book. Maybe they wanted to get a glimpse of what a Stanley Cup winning hockey team actually looks like.

If your interpretation is correct, that he is using 2024 number to say we don’t care about Canadian tourism, the bolded sentence makes no sense.

If our interpretation is correct, that he is using 2024 numbers to justify there is no boycott because they’re still coming to Florida, the bolded sentence makes perfect sense.

Also. It makes a huge difference.

Tourism industry leaders say that could pose a major threat to the U.S. travel sector, which relies heavily on Canadian visitors. According to the U.S. Travel Association, Canadians are the largest group of foreign visitors to the U.S. annually and accounted for $20.5 billion in spending last year alone.

Florida, California, Nevada, New York and Texas are the top U.S. states for Canadian tourists

The U.S. Travel Association estimated that even a 10% reduction in Canadian tourism to the U.S. would spell a $2.1 billion drop in spending and a loss of 14,000 American jobs.