From the Niagara Falls Review:
The U.S. ambassador to Canada says the tourism industry won’t suffer under a new American law requiring travellers to show passports before entering the U.S.
Tourism officials here, though, beg to differ.
The way Arlene White sees it, the more stringent border-identification policy – the first phase is set to take effect early next year – is already taking a toll on border-town economies. “This issue has already had a drastic effect on cross-border tourism. Many Canadian and American travellers already think they need a passport to cross the border, which is not true,” said the executive director of the Binational Tourism Alliance.