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Canada, US heading in different directions on inbound tourism


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Canada had the most foreign tourists last year in almost two decades

http://www.travelweek.ca/news/canada-breaks-14-year-tourism-record-nearly-20m-arrivals-2016/

Meanwhile, US tourism is hitting a "Trump Slump"

http://www.frommers.com/tips/miscellaneous/the-travel-press-is-reporting-the-trump-slump-a-devastating-drop-in-tourism-to-the-united-states

 

If these trends persist, it could be a banner year like none other for tourism to Canada. Good for the airlines, good for everyone else who makes a buck off foreign tourism.

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1 hour ago, dagger said:

 

If these trends persist, it could be a banner year like none other for tourism to Canada. Good for the airlines, good for everyone else who makes a buck off foreign tourism.

AC might see some effect of a downturn in travel to the US given its current strategy of using its Canadian hubs to capture US-bound travel from overseas.  Probably good news for us overall, though, if more seats on our international flights end up being sold to people actually travelling to Canada rather than transiting here.  EU/Asia-Canada-USA fares are often lower than EU/Asia-Canada fares.

I wonder if AC's rumoured interest in serving Iran will go away if Trump's travel ban that we aren't supposed to call a ban actually sees the light of day in some form.  I'd expect that AC had hoped to attract a lot of traffic from California.

 

 

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26 minutes ago, FA@AC said:

Probably good news for us overall, though, if more seats on our international flights end up being sold to people actually travelling to Canada rather than transiting here.  EU/Asia-Canada-USA fares are often lower than EU/Asia-Canada fares

If Air Canada is not managing their inventory so that they allocate all the seats needed to the higher fare.....then.....the airline has bigger problems than a downturn in US tourism traffic.

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26 minutes ago, Fido said:

If Air Canada is not managing their inventory so that they allocate all the seats needed to the higher fare.....then.....the airline has bigger problems than a downturn in US tourism traffic.

I'm sure they allocate as many seats as they're able to sell to the higher fares, but the prohibition of hidden city ticketing in the tariffs of most airlines suggests that such weird pricing is common.  BA's fares to LHR are usually substantially higher than their fares to EU via LHR.  KL usually charges more for YYZ-AMS than it does for YYZ-AMS-EU elsewhere.  LAX-ORD-YYZ or LAX-NYC-YYZ on AA and UA is often less expensive than LAX-ORD or LAX-NYC on the same flights.

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Transiting through LHR will save you their pricey LHR tax vs. destined/departing there...

Same with YYZ, not to mention all the Canadian taxes... Many of them likely don't count when you are in transit ... we must be one of the least competitive jurisdictions in the world, particularly YYZ.

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