{"id":429604,"date":"2026-01-24T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:45:11","slug":"u-s-border-crossings-from-canada-down-24-per-cent-as-u-s-projected-to-lose-billions-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429604\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. border crossings from Canada down 24 per cent as U.S. projected to lose billions &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest stats show Canadians are continuing to avoid travel to the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hear that, what I think about is all the businesses that will be impacted, the jobs that won\u2019t be able to be held on to, all the lost revenue for the local governments that benefit from that level of economic activity,\u201d Washington state\u2019s lieutenant-governor Denny Heck told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd finally, I think about, oh boy, this is an unforced error. This didn\u2019t have to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Return trips to the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11634636\/canada-united-states-travel-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">United States were down almost 24 per cent year-over-year<\/a> in November, which continues a trend from the same month in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Even with a Seattle Seahawks playoff game in Seattle this weekend, few vehicles were heading south at both the Peace Arch and Sumas border crossings on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, here\u2019s the bottom line,\u201d Heck said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWashingtonians love Canadians. They, I especially love people from British Columbia. We feel such a long-standing, deep kinship with the people of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we look forward to the day when, frankly, we can be more like it used to be in terms of that mutual respect and affection. Affection which we\u2019ve never lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'RV industry seeing shift amid drop in Canadian travel to the U.S.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WEBPIC_RV_SALES.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:47<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRV industry seeing shift amid drop in Canadian travel to the U.S.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to draw Canadians back, a number of hotels in Las Vegas are honouring the Canadian dollar at par.<\/p>\n<p>The Circa Resort &amp; Casino, the D Las Vegas and Golden Gate Hotel &amp; Casino, all located in downtown Las Vegas, will receive the Canadian dollar at par rate, with proof of Canadian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11620877\/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769233510_886_CP175653730-e1768927793200.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRead the full transcript of Carney\u2019s speech to World Economic Forum\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11634513\/ryan-wedding-arrested\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769233511_58_Ryan-Wedding-2025.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRyan Wedding arrested: Olympian-turned-alleged drug lord captured\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But even that may not be enough to lure Canadian travellers back.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World Travel and Tourism Council said that the U.S. is projected to lose about $12.5 billion in international visitor spending in 2025, which is a massive number and the U.S. was the only country out of 184 in the study they did that had a decline in international visitor spending last year,\u201d travel expert Claire Newell told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>Heck said that ahead of the FIFA World Cup this year, he hopes people will cross the border to see the games and support the local economies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge global event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to encourage all Washingtonians to go north to see the games that are there. And all my friends in British Columbia, come south to see games that\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heck added that he knows Canadians are understandably very angry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWashingtonians are very, very heartbroken. Our state is an enormously popular vacation destination as well and we\u2019re hurting all our small businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest stats show Canadians are continuing to avoid travel to the United States. \u201cWhen I hear that,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,179023,179024,2845],"class_list":["post-429604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-us-border","tag-cross-border-trips","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}