Las Vegas Considers $6 Million To Win Back Canadian Visitors — What The Numbers Show

“Florida tourism has now fallen for two straight quarters, and Canadian visits to the state are down 13.9 percent this year. On CBC’s Power and Politics, Chuck Todd, the former moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, said the quiet part out loud about what that means. “One of the other things that we don’t talk enough about is how much our tourism economy has been damaged by the antagonistic relationship with Canada,” he said. “I grew up in the state of Florida. Florida reported two quarters in a row of tourism going down. And there’s only one answer for that. It’s alienating our international friends, in particular Canadians.” The numbers behind him are worse than the sentence. Canadian travel to Las Vegas fell 17.4 percent, from 1,448,700 visitors to 1,196,300. Airline capacity between Las Vegas and Canada is down about 35 percent, the lowest since 2006. Las Vegas officials are now considering spending six million dollars to win Canadian visitors back. CNN Business ran the headline “we miss our Canadian friends.” Statistics Canada’s latest figures show Canadian return trips from the United States rising again year over year, but trips by car in August were still about 27 percent below August 2024. No government ordered this. There is no tariff on a vacation. Millions of Canadians simply chose a different airport, one household at a time. We keep it honest, and this is the part we did not cut. Chuck Todd also warns Canadians not to assume the midterms will fix it: once a tariff exists, the group it protects starts defending it, and some auto tariffs are popular in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. He notes Joe Biden kept many Trump tariffs. And he ends with something you rarely hear from American television: “I always feel guilty. I’m sorry, Canada. I’m sorry we’re doing this.” #Canada #Tourism #Florida #LasVegas #TradeWar #Tariffs #ChuckTodd #Boycott #ElbowsUp #Travel #Bahamas #Snowbirds #Carney #Trump #Midterms #CanadaUS”