Weak dollar, anger toward U.S. expected to give big boost to Quebec tourism industry

The weak Canadian greenback and the commerce struggle with the USA is predicted to spice up Quebec’s tourism economic system this 12 months.

A significant tourism affiliation says it calculated that Quebecers who select to trip within the province as an alternative of the USA will spend $1.5 billion in 2025.

Sébastien Benedict, with Alliance de l’industrie touristique du Québec, says that determine got here from a Leger survey performed for his group that confirmed 45 per cent of Quebec respondents mentioned they’d cancelled or will cancel journey plans to the U.S. this 12 months.

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And amongst those that had cancelled or mentioned they’d, half of them deliberate to spend their tourism {dollars} in Quebec.

Many Quebecers have turned bitter on the USA since President Donald Trump began threatening to annex Canada and make it the 51st state, and particularly after he imposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian items this week.

Yves Lalumière, CEO of Tourisme Montréal, says town is planning a advertising technique in the USA that may spotlight the energy of the U.S. greenback — one American greenback is value greater than 1.44 Canadian {dollars}.

The Leger survey was performed Feb. 14-16 involving barely greater than 1,000 internet panel respondents in Quebec. The survey didn’t use a probabilistic pattern and due to this fact doesn’t have a margin of error.