Hotels, bed and breakfast, restaurants and many tourism and places of interest is affected already because of the low American dollar. But with the new passport regulation between the U.S. border and Canada, it is making it even harder for the small business owners to stay in business.
For instance, the drop in the number of Americans using the ferry between Bar Harbor, Maine, and Yarmouth, N.S., isn’t as bad as expected. George Driscoll, vice-president of marketing and sales for Bay Ferries, says a survey of possible travellers in the New England states last fall indicated about 30 per cent of them did not have passports.
I was very surprised to read the above .. because we certainly have seen a declined in tourism in our area. When the claimed that the Canadian brand is strong.. i supposed they are thinking of bigger places like Toronto and Vancouver – i beg to differ here in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.