{"id":103603,"date":"2026-01-02T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103603\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:21:09","slug":"canadian-tourists-coming-to-florida-dips-by-15-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103603\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tourists coming to Florida dips by 15%, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fewer Canadians vacationed in the Sunshine State in the third quarter of 2025 compared to previous years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitflorida.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">VISIT FLORIDA<\/a> said an estimated 507,000 Canadians came to Florida between July to September 2025, which is normally a busy tourism time at the theme parks and beaches. The 507,000 was a 15% decrease from Q3 2024 and a nearly 28% decrease from Q3 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/state\/numbers-are-in-2025-canadian-tourism-down-in-florida-by-15\/article_3d4cd527-4151-444f-ae21-b50c87e804e7.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Fort Myers-based WINK News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some Canadians have expressed anger and been turned off from visiting the United States because of President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs and his comments about annexing Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">VISIT FLORIDA said a total of 34.3 million tourists visited Florida in Q3 2025, an overall 0.3% increase from the same quarter in 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not mentioning the 15% Canadian dip in a press release, state leaders maintained a sunny outlook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fau.edu\/r1?utm_source=banner&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=florida_politics_feb10&amp;utm_id=fau100&amp;utm_content=728x90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-721283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FloridaAtlantic-728x90-R1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFlorida tourism remains strong and leads the nation,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitflorida.org\/about-us\/who-we-are\/bryan-griffin-president-ceo\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bryan Griffin<\/a>, President and CEO of VISIT FLORIDA in the press release. \u201cVISIT FLORIDA is strategically focused on growing visitation from Latin America and Europe and maintaining Florida\u2019s #1 market share of domestic tourists, and our strategy is working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gov. Ron DeSantis was <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/753453-desantis-canadian-tourism\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">dismissive of any potential Canadian tourism declines<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey said that the Canadians were going to stop coming to Florida. And I\u2019m thinking to myself, \u2018I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true, because who would want to be in Canada in the winter or spring when you could be in Florida? Like, if you can get here, you want to get here.\u2019 And so we have the numbers,\u201d DeSantis said during the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1960839081669353691\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2025 Florida Governor\u2019s Conference on Tourism<\/a> in late August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, most of Florida\u2019s tourists are coming from the rest of the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPreliminary estimates show that domestic travelers accounted for 91.7 percent of all visitors, with 31.5 million Americans traveling to Florida in Q3. Overseas visitation grew 3.2 percent from Q3 2024 to reach 2.3 million,\u201d the press release said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scgroup.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-531166 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sunrise-Consulting-Digital-Ad-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Canada\u2019s tourists amounted to 1.5% of all of Florida\u2019s travelers for the quarter, VISIT FLORIDA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fewer Canadians vacationed in the Sunshine State in the third quarter of 2025 compared to previous years. 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