Trump Ruffles Feathers, Sends Canadian Snowbirds Flying Elsewhere – Nova Scotia – CBC News

The “Trump Factor” combined with a weak Canadian dollar has some snowbirds changing their vacation plans this year, according to one Halifax travel consultant. “Certainly what I hear from the hoteliers and the car rental companies, and so forth, that in the traditional snowbird destinations, the winter destinations for Canada, is that you’ve got about a 13 per cent to a 15 per cent drop in figures to date,” Bob Sime said in an interview Tuesday. Sime said many Canadian travellers are concerned about how they will be received, not…

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