Tourism expects fewer Americans, more others
Tourism businesses in Montreal expect fewer Americans this summer, but more international visitors and more people from the rest of Canada.
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MarcG 07:34 on 2025-05-14 Permalink
I wonder if a lot of Americans won’t be travelling out of their country for fear of what might happen when they try to re-enter. I assume also that inflatation and tariffs are taking a big bite out of their disposible income.
PatrickC 09:54 on 2025-05-14 Permalink
The Tourisme Montréal guy claims that for visitors from abroad the city is a “gateway” (porte d’entrée) to the Americas. What does that even mean? That it’s a hub from which to go on to the US or Mexico? That was what Mirabel was supposed to be, back in the day (and how well that worked out), but it would be odd to promote a city as a stopover place.Or does he means that Montreal provides a safe place to sample “the Americas” before taking a bigger travel risk? Gateway is usually what you call a place that has nothing special to recommend it. Saint Jerome is the “gateway to the Laurentians”…
Kate 10:52 on 2025-05-14 Permalink
I can’t guess at his intended meaning, but perhaps it’s that Montreal is a bit European‑ish in tone, so would be less of a culture shock to some visitors than getting dumped directly into Las Vegas?
Quebec’s always had an interesting challenge of presenting itself to Americans as sort of Europe Lite, especially Quebec City, while emphasizing its great empty outdoors to Europeans accustomed to city life in densely settled landscapes.
Joey 12:44 on 2025-05-14 Permalink
I think all it means is that it’s a pretty obvious destination arrival point for French-speaking travellers to North America. If you want to visit Quebec, you fly in to Montreal, travel around a bit, and head back to YUL for your flight home. Beyond that is just marketing drivel.
Kate 20:14 on 2025-05-14 Permalink
MarcG, if I were American and not white, and/or was on record as ever having said or done anything critical of either of Trump’s administrations, I would think twice about leaving the U.S. and trying to get back in. And that goes double for anyone born outside the U.S. or of a non-Christian denomination.
It is, after all, a big country. Americans don’t have to leave the U.S. to get a change of scene – more or less.