The number of Canadians staying at Airbnbs in the United States has dropped sharply last month, according to new data from Airdna, a site that analyzes the short-term rental market.
In March, there was a decrease of 12.1% of nights reserved by Canadian travelers compared to March 2024.
Canadians fell to the United States in response to growing tensions between the two countries on prices announced in January by President Donald Trump.
The short -term rental market as a whole remained stable in March, the average revenues per registration increasing by 1.3% compared to last year. Canadian travelers represent only a small part of the global short -term American rental market, with only 2.6% of all bookings last year.
We do not know if the drop recorded in March will persist in April and beyond. Canadians reserved US short -term rentals at slightly higher rates in January and February 2025 compared to the same months in 2024.
However, Canadians have a larger market share in certain destinations close to the northern border of the United States, including Buffalo, New York and Bellingham, Washington, as well as popular destinations for Snowbirds, such as Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
“This may not affect industry evenly, but some places will see more impacts,” said economist Airdna, Bram Gallagher, to Business Insider.
Airbnb refused to comment.
Some Canadians cancel trips to the United States and express their patriotism
In February, the Minister of the Bonus at the time, Justin Trudeau, encouraged Canadians to reconsider travel plans in the United States and support internal tourism.
Some Canadians seem to have taken into account his call.
The number of Canadians leading to the United States in February dropped by 23% compared to the previous year, according to statistics Canada data. In March, the traveling company OAG said that flight reservations to the United States from Canada had lost more than 70% in annual shift from September to September.
Banners supporting Canadian visitors are displayed in Palm Springs, California. Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
In Palm Springs, California, Airbnb host Robert Carlson, told Business Insider in March that a long -standing Canadian guest suddenly left his holidays in California in March and canceled a next $ 7,000 reserve.
“I really find it difficult to sleep here right now. I’m cutting my short stay and I’m going back to Canada,” he wrote in an email to Carlson.
Carlson feared that a Canadian couple with a reservation of $ 17,000 later in the year could not follow suit.
The US Travel Association estimated that a 10% drop in Canadian trips could lead to 14,000 job losses and $ 2.1 billion in lost expense in 2025.
Some Canadians, on the other hand, feel a feeling of strong feeling of national pride. Toronto consultant Dylan Lobo told Business Insider that there had been a massive peak in traffic on his website, Made in Ca, an online directory of Canadian manufacturing goods.
Since January, there have been days when the site traffic has tripled overnight. The largest increase occurred on February 1, when Trump imposed 25% tariffs on most Canadian products and traffic has reached more than 100,000 visitors, he said. Bi could not check independently made in CA readership.
“There is a lot of patriotism right now in this country,” said Lobo.
Airbnb hosts worried in the United States could promote themselves as friendly for Canadian travelers, Gallagher, Airdna, suggested.
“It could become something that you market, expressing solidarity for Canadian visitors,” he said.
Axel Springer, the parent company of Insider Inc., is an investor in Airbnb.
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