- NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario: A new study shows stricter travel document requirements adopted in 2009 haven’t clogged traffic along one of the busiest stretches of the US -Canada border, as many had feared.
But the study focusing on the western New York-southern Ontario corridor did find that Americans are making fewer day trips to Canada.
The study’s authors say the perception that crossing the border is difficult and a lack of knowledge about things to do on the other side are combining to keep them home.
Canadians continue to shop in the US.
The study was commissioned by a consortium led by the Binational Economic & Tourism Alliance. Preliminary findings were released in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Alliance director Arlene White says Canadian tourism officials need to market the country better to Americans.